ocaml lsp-server install fails when libinotify is installed.

[Alain De Vos]

opam install ocaml-lsp-server

Fails with linker error.

Solution was:

pkg remove -f libinotify

Does the linker has a problem finding libinotify ?

 

[Alain De Vos]

I found two links referring to same problem in different context.
It is weird.

Link phase may fail if headers are found but libraries aren't · Issue #95 · emcrisostomo/fswatch

A FreeBSD 10 user reported link failure while resolving inotify functions: CXXLD fswatch ../libfswatch/src/libfswatch/.libs/libfswatch.so: undefined reference to `inotify_add_watch' ../libfswat...

github.com

and

168617 – emulators/wine: build failing if libinotify installed

bugs.freebsd.org

Any ideas ?