Re: [Caml-list] Re: [ANN] beta-release of OPAM

[Roberto Di Cosmo <roberto@dicosmo.org>]

I can confirm this : on opam 0.8.3, this bug prevented me from
compiling properly a test code for Parmap.
It definitely needs to be fixed :-)

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 07:29:56PM +0000, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> There is just one odd corner case that I've been trying to track down.
> 
> If you have ocamlfind installed in your system PATH, then the 
> "ocamlbuild -use-ocamlfind" mode seems to pick that one up in preference
> to the OPAM-installed ocamlfind (which sits in ~/.opam/<compiler>/bin, and
> is also on the PATH).
> 
> I've not fixed that yet, but if you do run into odd bugs where an OPAM 
> package fails to build due to not finding a library, then try uninstalling
> your system findlib, and the OPAM one should be picked up.
> 
> This doesn't happen with OASIS ocamlfind invocations, but only with the
> -use-ocamlfind mode of ocamlbuild.
> 
> -anil
> 
> On 15 Jan 2013, at 19:25, Fabrice Le Fessant <fabrice@lefessant.net> wrote:
> 
> > OPAM installs everything in ~/.opam by default, so it won't pollute
> > your current installation of OCaml. You have to use:
> > 
> > eval `opam config -env`
> > 
> > in a terminal to start using the version of OCaml installed by OPAM
> > (you can put that in a .bashrc file, for example).
> > 
> > --Fabrice
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Alan Schmitt
> > <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote:
> >> Thomas Gazagnaire writes:
> >> 
> >>> To people already using OPAM, I forgot to mention that it is highly
> >>> recommended to NOT upgrade opam using opam. The auto-update thing was
> >>> a mistake at the first place. It is also advised to start from a fresh
> >>> opam init. It should work if you don't, but it would definitely avoid
> >>> some confusions in some corner-cases.
> >> 
> >> I'm thinking of trying it, but there was a bit of information I could
> >> not find on the web page: where does OPAM puts the things it compiles?
> >> Is it easy to just try it with an existing installation of ocaml &
> >> libraries?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Alan
> >> 
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> > 
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