Re: galdata location

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:52:15AM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
> > with a different --prefix, the change doesn't kick in unless I remove
> > galois.o.  Maybe it should be in one of the files which get rebuild
> > when Configure is re-run, like gp.c for example?
>
> No, no, this should not be hardcoded in galois.c in the first place.
> The proper way would be to have a default() for the path to data files,
> here set to /home/igor/local/lib/pari/, and make galois.o to look in
> default(datapath)/galdata.
>
> This way we can add new datafile without changing GP: we just need to
> use another suffix instead of galdata.

Done in CVS. I have added a new default 'datadir'  [ GP will expect to find
'galdata' in it ].

Warning: I have removed the 'galdata' part of GPDATADIR.
1) Older settings of GP_DATA_DIR are now invalid.
2) make sure you 'make clean', then run Configure to avoid problems.

I'll try packaging a new galdata one of these days (80% of the current
distributed one is unused obsolete data...)

Cheers,

    Karim.
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