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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] confusing message in opam installer.
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 18:50:28 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1812021849340.2439@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181202174434.4qaojvhh6jenhfrj@topoi.pooq.com>



On Sun, 2 Dec 2018, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 10:12:21AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:47:57AM +0000, Jeremie Dimino wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:46 PM Jaap Boender <jaapb@kerguelen.org> wrote:
> > > > Apart from the bootstrap issue I mentioned), dune and the opam .install
> > > > files work pretty well for me under pkgsrc; I've got the infrastructure
> > > > set up now so that I can basically just create a package by pointing out
> > > > where to download, which dune packages to build and which .install files
> > > > to use.
> > >
> > > Hi Jaap,
> > >
> > > Since version 1.0.0, Dune no longer requires opam to handle
> > > installation. This means that you can build and install Dune with
> > > nothing more than the OCaml compiler, and you can build and install
> > > packages using Dune without opam.
> >
> > So, to get dune I need to install ocaml.
> > To get Ocaml it's recommended to start with opam (even though I don't
> > need it for dune)
> > To get opam ... ??
> >
> > The opam in my distro (Devuan Jessie) isn't up to date.  I gather I
> > should start with an up-to-date opam.
> >
> > Presumably there's a way to install current opam from scratch without
> > starting with dune.
>
> I ended up installing opam using the script https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocaml/opam/master/shell/install.sh
>
> There's only one thing that gave me pause -- the message
>
> [NOTE] Make sure that ~/.profile is well sourced in your ~/.bashrc.

The above would be better without "well".  I would have filed an issue,
but the above link doesn't seem to contain the above string, so I'm not
sure where to file it.

julia

>
> It so happens that my distro does the reverse -- sources my ~/.bashrc in my ~/.profile.
>
> Had I not checked, I would have ended up with an endless shell
> recursion.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-02 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-26 10:14 [Caml-list] Build-/Installation-Tools - not enogh of them? Oliver Bandel
2018-11-26 16:41 ` Yawar Amin
2018-11-26 16:57   ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-26 17:15     ` Yawar Amin
2018-11-26 20:33       ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-26 20:47         ` Yawar Amin
2018-11-26 20:54           ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-26 21:19             ` Yawar Amin
2018-11-26 21:29               ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-26 22:16                 ` SP
2018-11-27  5:24                   ` Malcolm Matalka
2018-11-28  0:20                     ` SP
2018-11-27  6:11                   ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-27  8:45                     ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-11-28  0:04                     ` SP
2018-11-27  9:27                 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-11-27 10:08                   ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-27 10:28                     ` [Caml-list] Build-/Installation-Tools - not enough " SF Markus Elfring
2018-11-27 10:34                       ` Julia Lawall
2018-11-27 11:05                         ` Jean-Francois Monin
2018-11-27 11:00                           ` Kakadu
2018-11-27 13:18                             ` Malcolm Matalka
2018-11-28  1:52                               ` Francois Berenger
2018-11-28 15:21                             ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-11-27 13:07                     ` [Caml-list] Build-/Installation-Tools - not enogh " Jean-Marc Alliot
2018-12-06 12:21               ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-12-06 16:10                 ` Yawar Amin
2018-12-06 20:18                   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-12-07  7:31                     ` Daniel Bünzli
2018-12-07  7:44                       ` [Caml-list] What happened to the 'ancient' library for OCaml? Francois Berenger
2018-12-07  8:24                         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-12-07  8:26                       ` [Caml-list] Build-/Installation-Tools - not enogh of them? Richard W.M. Jones
2018-12-07  9:01                         ` Daniel Bünzli
2018-12-07 13:22                       ` Stéphane Glondu
2018-12-08  0:58                         ` Daniel Bünzli
2018-12-13 23:45                           ` SP
2018-12-11  2:47                         ` Francois Berenger
2018-12-07 13:12                     ` Malcolm Matalka
2018-11-27 14:32             ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2018-11-27 14:35     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2018-11-30 15:23   ` Louis Gesbert
2018-11-26 22:44 ` Jaap Boender
2018-11-26 22:55   ` Simon Cruanes
2018-11-27 13:29     ` Oliver Bandel
2018-11-27 13:45       ` [Caml-list] Build-/Installation tools - not enough " SF Markus Elfring
2018-11-27 15:06       ` [Caml-list] Build-/Installation-Tools - not enogh " Simon Cruanes
2018-11-27 15:49         ` Oliver Bandel
2018-11-27 16:27           ` Daniel Bünzli
2018-11-27 17:46             ` Jaap Boender
2018-11-28 11:47               ` Jeremie Dimino
2018-12-01 15:12                 ` [Caml-list] How to start with the curren toolset? Hendrik Boom
2018-12-01 16:56                   ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-12-02 15:27                   ` Daniel Bünzli
2018-12-02 23:36                     ` David Allsopp
2018-12-03  2:19                     ` [Caml-list] let's give a try at opam-bundle Francois Berenger
2018-12-02 17:44                   ` [Caml-list] confusing message in opam installer Hendrik Boom
2018-12-02 17:50                     ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2018-12-05 19:07                       ` Raja Boujbel - OCamlPro
2018-11-27 16:27           ` [Caml-list] Build-/Installation tools - not enough of them? SF Markus Elfring
2018-11-27 17:09           ` [Caml-list] Build-/Installation-Tools - not enogh " Markus Mottl
2018-11-30 12:41             ` [Caml-list] <DKIM> " Vu Ngoc San
2018-12-07 15:19             ` [Caml-list] " oliver
2018-11-27 16:52       ` Hendrik Boom
2018-11-27 14:11     ` Jaap Boender
2018-11-27  2:33   ` Francois Berenger
2018-11-27 13:31     ` Oliver Bandel
2018-11-27 13:40 ` John F Carr
2018-11-30 16:31   ` Louis Gesbert
2018-12-01  5:01     ` Louis Roché
2018-12-03  0:16     ` Edwin Török

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