[ocaml-platform] OPAM Install of ctypes-foreign fails silently

[Robert Pickering]

Great, many thanks. Working as expected now :)

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015, at 04:37 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 4 Dec 2015, at 15:20, Jeremy Yallop <yallop at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On 4 December 2015 at 15:13, Robert Pickering
> > <robertfpickering at fastmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm try to install the package ctypes-foreign using OPAM. It looks like
> >> it works, but actually nothing gets installed.
> > 
> > That's the intended behaviour, since ctypes-foreign is just a virtual
> > package that determines whether the foreign subpackage should built as
> > part of ctypes.
> > 
> >> $ ocamlfind query ctypes-foreign
> > 
> > The opam package is called 'ctypes-foreign' (with a hyphen), but the
> > ocamlfind package is called 'ctypes.foreign' (with a dot), so the
> > command you need is
> > 
> >   ocamlfind query ctypes.foreign
> 
> I've submitted an OPAM repository pull request to make this behaviour
> more obvious in the OPAM packages:
> 
> https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/5247
> 
> -Anil