From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Retrieving the "include" directory for Emacs Modules Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:35:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86ttbcdhwn.fsf@gnu.org> <865xnscj0s.fsf@gnu.org> <86jzbp2r7a.fsf@gnu.org> <86zfkl11fc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34140"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:iVeBWC+pYLWx2zg7x08KWShp5B0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 25 18:35:48 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tQVIR-0008nx-Qu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:35:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tQVI1-0002Cr-QO; Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tQVHz-0002CZ-H0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tQVHy-0005Cq-1c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tQVHv-0008Oe-1z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:35:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.186, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:148975 Archived-At: > Those under /usr/lib are looked in by the relevant compilers (they are > include directories private to those compilers, hard-coded into them > when they are built). Those under /usr/share are private to the > relevant packages, and are either examples or test suites (thus AFAIU > unrelated to the issue at hand here). Those under /usr/src are what I > mentioned: private headers needed to build a package. Indeed, they each have their own reason to exist. And this is in Debian, i.e. a distribution which is very careful to install things in the one central place where they belong. Other relevant cases will look very different: Emacs.app, AppImages, Snap packages, etc... Stefan