[gambit-list] Trouble building gambit

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sun May 14 03:22:28 EDT 2017


Yes, to get the central installation directory you can use

    % gsi -e '(println (path-expand "~~"))'
    /Library/Gambit/v4.8.8/

If you want the directory where executables are installed use

    % gsi -e '(println (path-expand "~~bin"))'
    /Library/Gambit/v4.8.8/bin/

Note that this is not necessarily the central installation directory with bin/ appended to it because you can configure Gambit to install executables, libraries, documentation, etc in specific directories.  From INSTALL.txt:

If the --prefix option is not used, the default is to install all
files in /usr/local/Gambit and its subdirectories, namely "bin",
"lib", "include", etc.  The files that would normally go in these
subdirectories can be redirected to other directories using
the following configure options:

  --bindir=DIR            executables (gsi, gsc, ...)
  --libdir=DIR            libraries (libgambit.a, syntax-case.scm, ...)
  --includedir=DIR        C header files (gambit.h, ...)
  --docdir=DIR            documentation (gambit.pdf, gambit.html, ...)
  --infodir=DIR           info documentation (gambit.info, ...)
  --datadir=DIR           read-only architecture-independent data (gambit.el)

Marc



> On May 14, 2017, at 2:43 AM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, is there a way from a gsi in the $PATH to extract the
>> installation path of gambit? Say with a suitable -e argument.
>> 
> For that, from the manual I get
> gsi -e '(display (path-expand "~~")) (newline)'
> 
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