Re: Language module support modified

Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.aap.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > - The search order is now first the home directory, then /usr/local,
> >   then the Aap directory.  The first module found is used.
> 
> Like someone else already pointed out, /usr/local is rather
> unportable. I presume you mean "the OS-specific place for "extra
> software"".

And how would Aap find out where that is?

I could add a variable in default.aap, but I found one place where the
/usr/local/... directory is used without reading it: filetype detection.
Perhaps this is something that must be done when installing Aap?

> > Adriaan, perhaps we should move the libtool stuff from default.aap to a
> > "libtool" module?
> 
> Yes, it definitely needs to be removed from there. I've sent a couple of
> versions of the libtool module to the list before, I'll send in the
> current version (which tries a little harder to find a libtool executable
> if the user doesn't specify one, and which knows about version numbers)
> this evening.

Very good.  Perhaps a few things can then be removed from default.aap?

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