[Unison-hackers] Unison 2.27 for Mac - Broken since 7/17

[Mason Kramer]

I'm not sure what changed on that fateful day three weeks ago, but  
that is the last time Unison reported a successful sync across ssh in  
my logs.  I've been using the Mac Ports package, and I fear I may have  
upgraded ocaml to 3.11.1_0, which apparently broke Unison.  But since  
then I have tried many ways to get Unison working, and nothing has  
worked.

The stable and beta binaries available at http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/index.html 
  do not work for me, whether I use the GUI or text mode.  When I use  
the Cocoa GUI, I get a Connecting... window indefinitely whenever I  
try to sync across ssh.  Syncing local test folders works fine.  Yes,  
I made sure to install the CLI on both computers for each version I  
tried.

Network traffic analysis indicates than an ssh session to the target  
machine is being created when I try to connect.  The correct binary is  
available at /usr/bin/local.  This ought to be in the non-login  
shell's path, and it definitely was for a long time (since the program  
worked).

I have also been unable to build Unison 2.27 from source.  I built  
Ocaml 3.10, it built fine, but Unison wouldn't build from the command  
line or xcode project.  In the xcode project, I get errors on Growl  
headers.  From the command line,

[09:40:32:/Volumes/MacHD (RAID1)/Media/Mason/Downloads/ 
unison-2.27.157]$ make
ocamlc -o mkProjectInfo mkProjectInfo.ml
./mkProjectInfo > Makefile.ProjectInfo
UISTYLE = macnew
Building for Unix
NATIVE = true
THREADS = true
STATIC = false
OSTYPE =
OSARCH = osx
echo 'let myName = "'unison'";;' > ubase/projectInfo.ml
echo 'let myVersion = "'2.27.157'";;' >> ubase/projectInfo.ml
echo 'let myMajorVersion = "'2.27'";;' >> ubase/projectInfo.ml
ocamlopt: ubase/projectInfo.ml ---> ubase/projectInfo.cmx
ocamlopt -I lwt -I ubase -thread  -c /Volumes/MacHD (RAID1)/Media/ 
Mason/Downloads/unison-2.27.157/ubase/projectInfo.ml
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `ocamlopt -I lwt -I ubase -thread  -c /Volumes/ 
MacHD (RAID1)/Media/Mason/Downloads/unison-2.27.157/ubase/ 
projectInfo.ml'
make: *** [ubase/projectInfo.cmx] Error 2
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I really don't have a clue how where to go from here, but I am willing  
to try any tests you want to make of me and respond with the results  
if it helps you get this fixed.  I am dying for Unison over here ;)