Re: [Chicken-users] where do the friggin' libraries go on Unix?

[John Cowan]

Brandon J. Van Every scripsit:

> Once upon a time, Felix looked at the CMake build and pronounced that 
> libraries go in whatever_prefix/lib.  But perhaps that's wrong, and they 
> should go in whatever_prefix/share/chicken?  All you wonderful Unixen 
> debate this.  I really don't care, and it is trivial to change.  I note 
> that the .exports all go in whatever_prefix/share/chicken, and that the 
> Chicken 2.41 ./configure tarball under Cygwin installs the libraries in 
> whatever_prefix/lib.

Libchicken and libuchicken and their static variants indeed go in
$PREFIX/lib.  Eggs go in $PREFIX/lib/chicken/1, just as on Cygwin.
Not only .exports but also .scm files containing macros go in
$PREFIX/share/chicken, as you point out.

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