Re: [Xapian-devel] TCL bindings

[James A. <jam...@ta...>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:56:43AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:

> OK, I've added a configure test.  I'm unsure about this change I made to
> tcl8/Makefile.am though:
> 
> -tcllibdir = ~/local/lib/tcl8.2
> +tcllibdir = @TCL_LIB@
> 
> Is ~/local/lib/tcl8.2 a "user bindings" directory?

Yes, because I wanted somewhere I could run make install into without
having to install a local TCL (I have local Python and PHP installs,
but I couldn't face building up another language right then :-).

> If so my change assumes you're root and installing the bindings
> system-wide.  Which is in some ways a generic bindings issue (cf
> James' recent reply to Alex about python bindings).

The default should be to the default installation (ie first invocation
on the path) system-wide library directory. I think that every
language needs some sort of override, yes.

J

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