On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:46:10PM -0400, James Turner wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 04:30:41AM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > > > > The opam tarball comes with a ocp-build.boot bytecode file which writes > > to $HOME, right at the beginning of the build process. > > ocp-build/README.md says the sources are in TypeRex[1]. After a quick > > look I don't find a way to generate a fresh ocp-build. Commenting the > > first call to ocp-build leads to systrace that prevents curl from > > calling home. > > > > ''curl --insecure -OL \ > > https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/31910/cudf-0.6.3.tar.gz'' > > > > This doesn't smell good imho. :) > > > > [1] https://github.com/OCamlPro/typerex/ > > opam pulls down a few OCaml libraries at build time and then statically > compiles them into the opam binary, cudf is one of those libraries. > > I didn't notice anything being written to $HOME. I don't normally build > with systrace (probably should) so I wonder if whatever is written is > removed farther in the build process. > > I very very new to OCaml so I do appreciate your input! >
Oh, just noticed this in directory in /opam-1.0.0_writes_to_HOME which contains some ocp-build stuff. I'll look into this further. -- James Turner
