Re: directory structure change

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:07:53PM -0500, Igor Schein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that gp is now looking for galdata in $prefix/share/pari
> instead of $prefix/lib/pari, pretty significant compatibility breaker.

I cannot confirm that, unless of course you have used the --share-prefix
flag.

The change was that gp was looking for galdata in $datadir. Now it looks
in $datadir/galdata. See changes C-14 and A-4.

> I haven't seen it being announced, but maybe the announcement is
> coming up, in which case sorry about spoiling it :).   Also, pari.cfg

It has already been announced in <20031110141447.GC3260@seventeen>.
Well, sort of.

> is still being installed in $prefix/lib/pari.  I would guess its place
> should also be in $prefix/share/pari with the rest of the files.  

Wrong :) pari.cfg is system-dependent while the other files are 
system-independent, so are put in $share_prefix.

However, I don't pretend we have made no bugs with the new setting

What bother me most currently is the minimal perl version
required to build pari from CVS.

Cheers,
Bill.