Error building vendored ocaml compiler when installing

[ryanartecona]

In a depending project, if I do npm install github:bsansouci/bsb-native, I get the following error (reproducibly, across several attempts).

File "_none_", line 1:
Error: I/O error: compilerlibs/ocamlbytecomp.cma: No such file or directory
make[4]: *** [compilerlibs/ocamlbytecomp.cma] Error 2
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: *** [coreall] Error 2
make[2]: *** [core] Error 2
make[1]: *** [opt.opt] Error 2
make: *** [world.opt] Error 2
child_process.js:635
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Command failed: /Users/ryanartecona/code/hodgkin/node_modules/bs-platform/scripts/buildocaml.sh

In trying to reproduce and investigate a fix, I cloned bsb-native locally and tried npm install ../bsb-native, and that worked just fine.

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• npm -v: 5.4.2 (though the same error happened on the 5.3.x version I was on before upgrading)
• node -v: v8.7.0
• opam switch show: 4.02.3+buckle-master
• macOS 10.12.6

[ryanartecona]

I should probably add that this isn't super inconvenient for me so far, since depending on my local bsb-native works for now. I opened this in part in case someone else sees the same error.

[bsansouci]

This is an npm5 error. It's near the top of my todo list to fix, I would love help on that one though. I don't know much about npm...

[bsansouci]

With the little exploration I've done, it seems like npm5 actively removes things that are checked in the repository but are in the .gitignore. I've tried to fix it a bit but abandoned halfway because I don't know all the internals of ocaml, and removing the build artifacts from the .gitignore would mean I could accidentally update them on the repository.

[bsansouci]

Close in favor of #11