Re: [Caml-list] confusing message in opam installer.

[Raja Boujbel - OCamlPro <raja.boujbel@ocamlpro.com>]

Jaap, Julia,

 > 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.

It is quite difficult to make scripts that works on all distribution, 
even if we restrain to POSIX requirements. On bash environment setup, 
there is a defined precedence, but each solution doesn't suit some 
users. It was a choice to add hooks in the .profile assuming it is 
sourced in the .bashrc [1]. Discussion about it are in [2] and [3].


 > The above would be better without "well".  I would have filed an issue,
 > but the above link doesn't seem to contain the above string, so I'm not
 > sure where to file it.

This message is in the opam code. Generally, you can report opam related 
issue in the bug tracker [4], install matters too.


Raja Boujbel -- OCamlPro


[1] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/pull/3304
[2] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/1447
[3] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/533
[4] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/