[opam-devel] specifying environment variables in opam package

Ashish Agarwal agarwal1975 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 13:27:11 BST 2016


On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com>
wrote:

> Le vendredi 15 avril 2016, 14:33:15 Ashish Agarwal a écrit :
> > I noticed that opam sets PERL5LIB. Can someone explain why.
>
> The answer is here: https://github.com/ocaml/opam/pull/755


Got it. Thanks. FYI, my use case is outside OPAM's original purpose. This
is for non-OCaml packages.


> I actually need
> > to add to this path when a certain package is installed. Does opam allow
> > that?
>
> Opam 2.0 does! ☺
> There is a new `setenv:` field


Great. Thanks! Looking forward to 2.0.
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