[Caml-list] confusing message in opam installer.

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 10:12:21AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:47:57AM +0000, Jeremie Dimino wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:46 PM Jaap Boender <jaapb@kerguelen.org> wrote:
> > > Apart from the bootstrap issue I mentioned), dune and the opam .install
> > > files work pretty well for me under pkgsrc; I've got the infrastructure
> > > set up now so that I can basically just create a package by pointing out
> > > where to download, which dune packages to build and which .install files
> > > to use.
> > 
> > Hi Jaap,
> > 
> > Since version 1.0.0, Dune no longer requires opam to handle
> > installation. This means that you can build and install Dune with
> > nothing more than the OCaml compiler, and you can build and install
> > packages using Dune without opam.
> 
> So, to get dune I need to install ocaml.
> To get Ocaml it's recommended to start with opam (even though I don't 
> need it for dune) 
> To get opam ... ??
> 
> The opam in my distro (Devuan Jessie) isn't up to date.  I gather I 
> should start with an up-to-date opam.
> 
> Presumably there's a way to install current opam from scratch without 
> starting with dune.

I ended up installing opam using the script https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocaml/opam/master/shell/install.sh

There's only one thing that gave me pause -- the message

[NOTE] Make sure that ~/.profile is well sourced in your ~/.bashrc.

It so happens that my distro does the reverse -- sources my ~/.bashrc in my ~/.profile.

Had I not checked, I would have ended up with an endless shell 
recursion.

-- hendrik