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

[Fabrice Le Fessant <fabrissimo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would suggest that OPAM should always set the variable OCAMLFIND_CONF 
to $HOME/.opam/$COMPILER/lib/findlib.conf, so that, whatever the 
"ocamlfind" that ocamlbuild uses, it will always use the packages 
installed by OPAM.
Can't this be automatically done by defining the variable in the .opam 
of ocamlfind ?
--Fabrice

On 01/16/2013 11:01 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2013, at 21:12, Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Roberto Di Cosmo <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > 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 :-)
> > It's been fixed on trunk now.
> Thanks for the quick fix!  Looking at the patch, the problem
> seems to be that ocamlbuild distinguishes between built-in tools
> (presumably the ocaml toolchain binaries), and external tools.
>
> Is there any reason why ocamlbuild shouldn't just unconditionally
> search the PATH for the compiler tools as well?  It's very confusing
> to have it override some binaries and not others.
>
> -anil