A weird error when installing a package using opam on Mac

Ecosystem
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Hi all,

I found that when an OCaml package that is supposed to build an executable file is installed using OPAM on a Mac, the executable file simply disappeared & could not be found from OPAM’s bin directory.

I specifically observed this behavior when trying ledit. This made running ledit on terminal raise an error because it could not be found.

Did anyone observe the same issue?

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I have not experienced this…eg when I install the dream-html package then the dreamwork executable is correctly available: dream-html/dreamwork/dune at dffaa416143c8d83542af5ba78f0fadfc8cb98dd · yawaramin/dream-html · GitHub

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I just tried installing ledit on my mac in the default opam switch and it worked as expected. Is it possible that you ran opam install ledit while a different opam switch was selected (e.g. in a project’s local switch). Do you experience this problem with other executable packages other than ledit or is it specific to ledit?

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Hmm, it was because the opam file of ledit did not have the instruction for copying its binary to the "%{bin}%" dir. TY all!