[opam-devel] Issue with Homebrew install of opam --HEAD

Anil Madhavapeddy anil at recoil.org
Sat Aug 23 12:40:57 BST 2014


I've issued a Homebrew pull request to update OPAM to 1.1.2 upstream, which
lets the `--HEAD` target work as expected again.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/31818

-anil

On 22 Aug 2014, at 08:40, Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com> wrote:

> The homebrew package description probably needs to be updated
> for 1.2 (or 1.1.2, for that matter).
> See https://github.com/ocaml/opam/blob/master/README.md#compiling-this-repo
>  
> Le jeudi 21 août 2014, 21:40:47 Thomas Gazagnaire a écrit :
> > That's also possible that the formula needs to be updated due to changes in the build system in opam 1.2 (needs to add a make lib-ext somewhere I think). Depends on how the package is built ...
> > 
> > > On 21 Aug 2014, at 21:38, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas.gazagnaire at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is related to changes I've done to make opam-lib compile on 4.02
> > > 
> > > Try to opam update and re-run your command 
> > > 
> > >> On 21 Aug 2014, at 20:41, Amir Chaudhry <amc79 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> Not strictly an opam bug but I just tried to install the HEAD version of opam via homebrew and encountered a failure [1].  I'm not sure what I'm missing nor how to fix it so I'm wondering if anyone can help me figure it out.  The homebrew formula is at [2] and hasn't been changed in a while.
> > >> 
> > >> In the meantime I've gone back to opam 1.1.1. without any (apparent) issues.
> > >> 
> > >> [1] output at: https://gist.github.com/amirmc/93a41cf3a5c96f20bbfc
> > >> [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/opam.rb
> > >> 
> > >> Amir
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