Re: Opam installation woes

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I've only been using it on MacOS X so far, where the /usr/local on 
Homebrew is indeed user-writeable.

Jon, any chance you could get a local install of OPAM running to fix this, as I 
don't have a Linux box handy until Friday.  The procedure is:

$ <fork github.com/mirage/opam-repository>
$ rm -rf ~/.opam
$ cd your/opam-repo
$ opam init -kind rsync default .

At this point, you can make changes in opam-repo, run "opam update" and see 
them reflected immediately.

$ <Fix the re and uri packages to add the configure doc disale as described by 
Thomas below.>
$ <pull request to opam-repository>

We really need a Jenkins setup to try all the combination of compilers and 
backends, as the Xen one has no doubt had some minor bitrot in the past few 
changesets.  To maintain your Xen compiler, I think you pass "opam --debug" to 
preserve the state.  You can modify the compiler descriptions (in 
opam-repo/compiler) in the same way.

-anil(packing to leave)

On 7 Aug 2012, at 16:04, Jonathan Ludlam <Jonathan.Ludlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Chowning /usr/local/share/doc to me now gets me past that. However, looks 
> like the uri build suffers the same problem, and it's also missing an oUnit 
> dependency.
> 
> Jon
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On 7 Aug 2012, at 15:52, "Thomas Gazagnaire" <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I guess the re package is missing the right configure invocation. Anil, I 
>> think you forgot to add something like "./configure" "--disable-doc" 
>> "--prefix" "%{prefix}%"] to build.
>> 
>> --
>> Thomas
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Ludlam wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I've been trying to follow the instructions on the mirage wiki to install 
>>> opam, but have had little success so far. I'm installing on a fresh 12.04 
>>> Ubuntu system, and the problem I'm currently getting is in installing re 
>>> 1.0 - it's trying to create the directory /usr/local/share/doc. Has anyone 
>>> had this problem, or some insight into how to fix it?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Jon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
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