[opam-devel] opam installs package but ocamlfind fails

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

> Okay, so then something wrong happened because I'm on a different switch than what is in this file. If I can reproduce the error, I'll submit a bug report.

The "right" switch is the one stored in ~/.opam/config (which should be the same as the one in the file)

But if you OPAMSWITCH set <FOO>, `opam switch show` and all `opam install` commands will consider the switch to be FOO.

Thomas


> 
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas at ocamlpro.com> wrote:
> > I don't see how this is possible. My variables.sh file is:
> >
> > $ cat variables.sh
> > CAML_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Users/ashish/.opam/4.00.1/lib/stublibs; export CAML_LD_LIBRARY_PATH;
> > OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH=/Users/ashish/.opam/4.00.1/lib/toplevel; export OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH;
> > MANPATH=/Users/ashish/.opam/4.00.1/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH;
> > PATH=/Users/ashish/.opam/4.00.1/bin:$PATH; export PATH;
> >
> > All path variables have a specific switch hardcoded in. When I do `opam switch foo`, these paths will be wrong.
> 
> This file is under the control of OPAM. Which means that when you do `opam switch foo` it will rewrite its contents to use the new compiler switch (you can try, switch and look at the file contents again).
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