Re: Modified load-path proposal

[Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>]

Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> writes:

>   Yes it does (I think).  If that's what you want, you just write your
>   Makefile.am like this ...
>
>   scmdatadir = $(datadir)/guile
>   scmdata_DATA = whatever1.scm whatever2.scm
>
>   ... and add an extra install step (for which I forget the syntax)
>   that does
>
>        guile-config add-load-path mydata $(datadir)/guile "My Location"
>
>   Am I still missing something?
>
> No, you're not - that's just fine, and would be IMHO the 'standard
> way' to do things, or at least one of two ways, with the other
> probably being putting stuff in $(guile-prefix)/share/guile.
>
I strongly support making this the default/standard way, too. I'd be
highly annoyed (well, that's an understatement ;)) if a "./configure
&& make && sudo make install" of some package would put files under
/usr just because guile happens to be installed there.

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