[opam-devel] Which shell files are updated
Thomas Gazagnaire
thomas at ocamlpro.com
Mon Aug 5 18:01:41 BST 2013
See https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/blob/master/src/core/opamMisc.ml#L436
if .bash_profile exists, this one will be picked-up instead of .bashrc.
(and see http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/zshbash-startup-files-loading-order-bashrc-zshrc-etc/ for the bigger picture :p)
On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:50 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> Thomas, Louis,
>
> This query came up in the RWO installation chapter comments, about which files to update:
>
> https://github.com/ocamllabs/rwo-comments/issues/2129
>
>> Most people - definitely those on Fedora - will want this in ~/.bashrc,
>> not ~/.bash_profile. ~/.bashrc is for interactive shells.
>
> Will OPAM 1.1 deal with this correctly? I think we want OPAM to be active in
> non-interactive shells too, or else any shell scripts that invoke OCaml will fail.
>
> -anil
>
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