[opam-devel] Which shell files are updated

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

I'm proxying the helpful chap over at:
https://github.com/ocamllabs/rwo-comments/issues/2129#issuecomment-22184157

He points out:

> I agree regarding inclusion in ~/.bash_profile as well, but in this case, OPAM won't work in interactive shells on Fedora unless included in ~/.bashrc. The typical suggested solution for this is to source ~/.bashrc from ~/.bash_profile and make all changes to ~/.bashrc, but if you want to leave those levels of system administration details to the reader, that seems fine.

-anil

On 5 Aug 2013, at 18:01, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas at ocamlpro.com> wrote:

> 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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