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NAME
opam-exec - Executes a command in the proper opam environment
SYNOPSIS
opam exec [OPTION]... COMMAND [ARG]......
DESCRIPTION
Execute COMMAND with the correct environment variables. This command can be used to
cross-compile between switches using opam config exec --switch=SWITCH -- COMMAND ARG1 ...
ARGn. Opam expansion takes place in command and args. If no switch is present on the
command line or in the OPAMSWITCH environment variable, OPAMSWITCH is not set in COMMAND's
environment.
This is a shortcut, and equivalent to opam config exec.
OPTIONS
--inplace-path
When updating the PATH variable, replace any pre-existing opam path in-place rather
than putting the new path in front. This means programs installed in opam that were
shadowed will remain so after opam env
--no
Answer no to all opam yes/no questions without prompting. See also --confirm-level.
This is equivalent to setting $OPAMNO to "true".
--set-root
With the env and exec subcommands, also sets the OPAMROOT variable, making sure
further calls to opam will use the same root.
--set-switch
With the env and exec subcommands, also sets the OPAMSWITCH variable, making sure
further calls to opam will use the same switch as this one.
-y, --yes
Answer yes to all opam yes/no questions without prompting. See also --confirm-level.
This is equivalent to setting $OPAMYES to "true".
COMMON OPTIONS
These options are common to all commands.
--best-effort
Don't fail if all requested packages can't be installed: try to install as many as
possible. Note that not all external solvers may support this option (recent versions
of aspcud or mccs should). This is equivalent to setting $OPAMBESTEFFORT environment
variable.
--cli=MAJOR.MINOR (absent=2.1)
Use the command-line interface syntax and semantics of MAJOR.MINOR. Intended for any
persistent use of opam (scripts, blog posts, etc.), any version of opam in the same
MAJOR series will behave as for the specified MINOR release. The flag was not
available in opam 2.0, so to select the 2.0 CLI, set the OPAMCLI environment variable
to 2.0 instead of using this parameter.
--color=WHEN
Colorize the output. WHEN must be one of `always', `never' or `auto'.
--confirm-level=LEVEL
Confirmation level, LEVEL must be one of `ask', `no', `yes' or `unsafe-yes'. Can be
specified more than once. If --yes or --no are also given, the value of the last
--confirm-level is taken into account. This is equivalent to setting
$OPAMCONFIRMLEVEL`.
--criteria=CRITERIA
Specify user preferences for dependency solving for this run. Overrides both
$OPAMCRITERIA and $OPAMUPGRADECRITERIA. For details on the supported language, and the
external solvers available, see http://opam.ocaml.org/doc/External_solvers.html. A
general guide to using solver preferences can be found at
http://www.dicosmo.org/Articles/usercriteria.pdf.
--cudf=FILENAME
Debug option: Save the CUDF requests sent to the solver to FILENAME-<n>.cudf.
--debug
Print debug message to stderr. This is equivalent to setting $OPAMDEBUG to "true".
--debug-level=LEVEL
Like --debug, but allows specifying the debug level (--debug sets it to 1). Equivalent
to setting $OPAMDEBUG to a positive integer.
--git-version
Print the git version of opam, if set (i.e. you are using a development version), and
exit.
--help[=FMT] (default=auto)
Show this help in format FMT. The value FMT must be one of `auto', `pager', `groff' or
`plain'. With `auto', the format is `pager` or `plain' whenever the TERM env var is
`dumb' or undefined.
--ignore-pin-depends
Ignore extra pins required by packages that get pinned, either manually through opam
pin or through opam install DIR. This is equivalent to setting IGNOREPINDEPENDS=true.
--json=FILENAME
Save the results of the opam run in a computer-readable file. If the filename contains
the character `%', it will be replaced by an index that doesn't overwrite an existing
file. Similar to setting the $OPAMJSON variable.
--no-aspcud
Removed in 2.1.
--no-auto-upgrade
When configuring or updating a repository that is written for an earlier opam version
(1.2), opam internally converts it to the current format. This disables this
behaviour. Note that repositories should define their format version in a 'repo' file
at their root, or they will be assumed to be in the older format. It is, in any case,
preferable to upgrade the repositories manually using opam admin upgrade [--mirror
URL] when possible.
--no-self-upgrade
Opam will replace itself with a newer binary found at OPAMROOT/opam if present. This
disables this behaviour.
-q, --quiet
Disables --verbose.
--root=ROOT
Use ROOT as the current root path. This is equivalent to setting $OPAMROOT to ROOT.
--safe, --readonly
Make sure nothing will be automatically updated or rewritten. Useful for calling from
completion scripts, for example. Will fail whenever such an operation is needed ; also
avoids waiting for locks, skips interactive questions and overrides the $OPAMDEBUG
variable. This is equivalent to set environment variable $OPAMSAFE.
--solver=CMD
Specify the CUDF solver to use for resolving package installation problems. This is
either a predefined solver (this version of opam supports builtin-mccs+lp(),
builtin-mccs+glpk, builtin-dummy-z3-solver, builtin-dummy-0install-solver, aspcud,
mccs, aspcud-old, packup), or a custom command that should contain the variables
%{input}%, %{output}%, %{criteria}%, and optionally %{timeout}%. This is equivalent to
setting $OPAMEXTERNALSOLVER.
--strict
Fail whenever an error is found in a package definition or a configuration file. The
default is to continue silently if possible.
--switch=SWITCH
Use SWITCH as the current compiler switch. This is equivalent to setting $OPAMSWITCH
to SWITCH.
--use-internal-solver
Disable any external solver, and use the built-in one (this requires that opam has
been compiled with a built-in solver). This is equivalent to setting $OPAMNOASPCUD or
$OPAMUSEINTERNALSOLVER.
-v, --verbose
Be more verbose. One -v shows all package commands, repeat to also display commands
called internally (e.g. tar, curl, patch etc.) Repeating n times is equivalent to
setting $OPAMVERBOSE to "n".
--version
Show version information.
-w, --working-dir
Whenever updating packages that are bound to a local, version-controlled directory,
update to the current working state of their source instead of the last committed
state, or the ref they are pointing to. As source directory is copied as it is, if it
isn't clean it may result on a opam build failure.This only affects packages
explicitly listed on the command-line.It can also be set with $OPAMWORKINGDIR.
ENVIRONMENT
Opam makes use of the environment variables listed here. Boolean variables should be set
to "0", "no", "false" or the empty string to disable, "1", "yes" or "true" to enable.
OPAMALLPARENS surround all filters with parenthesis.
OPAMASSUMEDEPEXTS see option `--assume-depexts'.
OPAMAUTOREMOVE see remove option `--auto-remove'.
OPAMBESTEFFORT see option `--best-effort'.
OPAMBESTEFFORTPREFIXCRITERIA sets the string that must be prepended to the criteria when
the `--best-effort' option is set, and is expected to maximise the `opam-query' property
in the solution.
OPAMBUILDDOC Removed in 2.1.
OPAMBUILDTEST Removed in 2.1.
OPAMCLI see option `--cli'.
OPAMCOLOR when set to always or never, sets a default value for the `--color' option.
OPAMCONFIRMLEVEL see option `--confirm-level`. OPAMCONFIRMLEVEL has priority over OPAMYES
and OPAMNO.
OPAMCRITERIA specifies user preferences for dependency solving. The default value depends
on the solver version, use `config report' to know the current setting. See also option
--criteria.
OPAMCUDFFILE save the cudf graph to file-actions-explicit.dot.
OPAMCUDFTRIM controls the filtering of unrelated packages during CUDF preprocessing.
OPAMCURL can be used to select a given 'curl' program. See OPAMFETCH for more options.
OPAMDEBUG see options `--debug' and `--debug-level'.
OPAMDEBUGSECTIONS if set, limits debug messages to the space-separated list of sections.
Sections can optionally have a specific debug level (for example, CLIENT:2 or CLIENT
CUDF:2), but otherwise use `--debug-level'.
OPAMDIGDEPTH defines how aggressive the lookup for conflicts during CUDF preprocessing is.
OPAMDOWNLOADJOBS sets the maximum number of simultaneous downloads.
OPAMDROPWORKINGDIR overrides packages previously updated with --working-dir on update.
Without this variable set, opam would keep them unchanged unless explicitly named on the
command-line.
OPAMDRYRUN see option `--dry-run'.
OPAMEDITOR sets the editor to use for opam file editing, overrides $EDITOR and $VISUAL.
OPAMERRLOGLEN sets the number of log lines printed when a sub-process fails. 0 to print
all.
OPAMEXTERNALSOLVER see option `--solver'.
OPAMFAKE see option `--fake'.
OPAMFETCH specifies how to download files: either `wget', `curl' or a custom command where
variables %{url}%, %{out}%, %{retry}%, %{compress}% and %{checksum}% will be replaced.
Overrides the 'download-command' value from the main config file.
OPAMFIXUPCRITERIA same as OPAMUPGRADECRITERIA, but specific to fixup.
OPAMIGNORECONSTRAINTS see install option `--ignore-constraints-on'.
OPAMIGNOREPINDEPENDS see option `--ignore-pin-depends'.
OPAMINPLACEBUILD see option `--inplace-build'.
OPAMJOBS sets the maximum number of parallel workers to run.
OPAMJSON log json output to the given file (use character `%' to index the files).
OPAMKEEPBUILDDIR see install option `--keep-build-dir'.
OPAMKEEPLOGS tells opam to not remove some temporary command logs and some backups. This
skips some finalisers and may also help to get more reliable backtraces.
OPAMLOCKED combination of `--locked' and `--lock-suffix' options.
OPAMLOGS logdir sets log directory, default is a temporary directory in /tmp
OPAMMAKECMD set the system make command to use.
OPAMMERGEOUT merge process outputs, stderr on stdout.
OPAMNO answer no to any question asked, see options `--no` and `--confirm-level`. OPAMNO
is ignored if either OPAMCONFIRMLEVEL or OPAMYES is set.
OPAMNOAGGREGATE with `opam admin check', don't aggregate packages.
OPAMNOASPCUD Deprecated.
OPAMNOAUTOUPGRADE disables automatic internal upgrade of repositories in an earlier format
to the current one, on 'update' or 'init'.
OPAMNOCHECKSUMS enables option --no-checksums when available.
OPAMNODEPEXTS disables system dependencies handling, see option `--no-depexts'.
OPAMNOENVNOTICE Internal.
OPAMNOSELFUPGRADE see option `--no-self-upgrade'
OPAMPINKINDAUTO sets whether version control systems should be detected when pinning to a
local path. Enabled by default since 1.3.0.
OPAMPRECISETRACKING fine grain tracking of directories.
OPAMPREPRO set this to false to disable CUDF preprocessing. Less efficient, but might help
debugging solver issue.
OPAMREQUIRECHECKSUMS Enables option `--require-checksums' when available (e.g. for `opam
install').
OPAMRETRIES sets the number of tries before failing downloads.
OPAMREUSEBUILDDIR see option `--reuse-build-dir'.
OPAMROOT see option `--root'. This is automatically set by `opam env --root=DIR
--set-root'.
OPAMROOTISOK don't complain when running as root.
OPAMSAFE see option `--safe'.
OPAMSHOW see option `--show'.
OPAMSKIPUPDATE see option `--skip-updates'.
OPAMSKIPVERSIONCHECKS bypasses some version checks. Unsafe, for compatibility testing
only.
OPAMSOLVERALLOWSUBOPTIMAL (default `true') allows some solvers to still return a solution
when they reach timeout; while the solution remains assured to be consistent, there is no
guarantee in this case that it fits the expected optimisation criteria. If `true', opam
willcontinue with a warning, if `false' a timeout is an error. Currently only the
builtin-z3 backend handles this degraded case.
OPAMSOLVERTIMEOUT change the time allowance of the solver. Default is 60.0, set to 0 for
unlimited. Note that all solvers may not support this option.
OPAMSTATS display stats at the end of command.
OPAMSTATUSLINE display a dynamic status line showing what's currently going on on the
terminal. (one of one of `always', `never' or `auto')
OPAMSTRICT fail on inconsistencies (file reading, switch import, etc.).
OPAMSWITCH see option `--switch'. Automatically set by `opam env --switch=SWITCH
--set-switch'.
OPAMUNLOCKBASE see install option `--unlock-base'.
OPAMUPGRADECRITERIA specifies user preferences for dependency solving when performing an
upgrade. Overrides OPAMCRITERIA in upgrades if both are set. See also option --criteria.
OPAMUSEINTERNALSOLVER see option `--use-internal-solver'.
OPAMUSEOPENSSL force openssl use for hash computing.
OPAMUTF8 use UTF8 characters in output (one of one of `always', `never' or `auto'). By
default `auto', which is determined from the locale).
OPAMUTF8MSGS use extended UTF8 characters (camels) in opam messages. Implies OPAMUTF8.
This is set by default on OSX only.
OPAMVALIDATIONHOOK if set, uses the `%{hook%}' command to validate an opam repository
update.
OPAMVERBOSE see option `--verbose'.
OPAMVERSIONLAGPOWER do not use.
OPAMWITHDOC see install option `--with-doc'.
OPAMWITHTEST see install option `--with-test.
OPAMWORKINGDIR see option `--working-dir'.
OPAMYES see options `--yes' and `--confirm-level`. OPAMYES has has priority over OPAMNO
and is ignored if OPAMCONFIRMLEVEL is set.
OPAMVAR_var overrides the contents of the variable var when substituting `%{var}%` strings
in `opam` files.
OPAMVAR_package_var overrides the contents of the variable package:var when substituting
`%{package:var}%` strings in `opam` files.
CLI VERSION
All scripts and programmatic invocations of opam should use `--cli' in order to ensure
that they work seamlessly with future versions of the opam client. Additionally, blog
posts or other documentation can benefit, as it prevents information from becoming stale.
Although opam only supports roots (~/.opam/) for the current version, it does provide
backwards compatibility for its command-line interface.
Since CLI version support was only added in opam 2.1, use OPAMCLI to select 2.0 support
(as opam 2.0 will just ignore it), and `--cli=2.1' for 2.1 (or later) versions, since an
environment variable controlling the parsing of syntax is brittle. To this end, opam
displays a warning if OPAMCLI specifies a valid version other than 2.0, and also if
`--cli=2.0' is specified.
The command-line version is selected by using the `--cli' option or the OPAMCLI
environment variable. `--cli' may be specified morethan once, where the last instance
takes precedence. OPAMCLI is only inspected if `--cli' is not given.
EXIT STATUS
As an exception to the following, the `exec' command returns 127 if the command was not
found or couldn't be executed, and the command's exit value otherwise.
0 Success, or true for boolean queries.
1 False. Returned when a boolean return value is expected, e.g. when running with
--check, or for queries like opam lint.
2 Bad command-line arguments, or command-line arguments pointing to an invalid context
(e.g. file not following the expected format).
5 Not found. You requested something (package, version, repository, etc.) that couldn't
be found.
10 Aborted. The operation required confirmation, which wasn't given.
15 Could not acquire the locks required for the operation.
20 There is no solution to the user request. This can be caused by asking to install two
incompatible packages, for example.
30 Error in package definition, or other metadata files. Using --strict raises this error
more often.
31 Package script error. Some package operations were unsuccessful. This may be an error
in the packages or an incompatibility with your system. This can be a partial error.
40 Sync error. Could not fetch some remotes from the network. This can be a partial
error.
50 Configuration error. Opam or system configuration doesn't allow operation, and needs
fixing.
60 Solver failure. The solver failed to return a sound answer. It can be due to a broken
external solver, or an error in solver configuration.
99 Internal error. Something went wrong, likely due to a bug in opam itself.
130 User interrupt. SIGINT was received, generally due to the user pressing Ctrl-C.
FURTHER DOCUMENTATION
See https://opam.ocaml.org/doc.
AUTHORS
Vincent Bernardoff <vb@luminar.eu.org>
Raja Boujbel <raja.boujbel@ocamlpro.com>
Roberto Di Cosmo <roberto@dicosmo.org>
Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@gazagnaire.org>
Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert@ocamlpro.com>
Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>
Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>
Guillem Rieu <guillem.rieu@ocamlpro.com>
Ralf Treinen <ralf.treinen@pps.jussieu.fr>
Frederic Tuong <tuong@users.gforge.inria.fr>
BUGS
Check bug reports at https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues.