Re: how to find the right place for installed scheme files?

Marius Vollmer (mvo@zagadka.ping.de)
06 Oct 1997 12:37:36 +0200

Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:
>
> I want to make my app install some scheme files such that they will be
> found by module autoloading. I figure
> ${guile_prefix}/share/guile/app/${appname} would be a good directory
> for this, but I am not sure how to find the place where guile was
> installed from an autoconf script. Can anyone suggest something?

Guile can give some information about how it was built and installed,
with `%guile-build-info'.

% guile -c "(display (cdr (assq 'pkgdatadir %guile-build-info))) (newline)"
/usr/local/share/guile