Unverified Commit e69c7f78 authored by Thibault Polge's avatar Thibault Polge
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auto-multiple-choice: Use default value for $MODSDIR 

Changing this value broke the program, because the variable controls
the installation path of Perl modules, but the main binary uses a
constant, hardcoded path.
parent 545c7a31

pkgs/applications/misc/auto-multiple-choice/default.nix

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@@ -42,8 +42,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { 
    # Relative paths.

    "BINDIR=/bin"

    "PERLDIR=/share/perl5"

    "MODSDIR=/nonexistent" # AMC will test for that dir before

    # defaulting to the "portable" strategy, so this test *must* fail.

    "MODSDIR=/lib" # At runtime, AMC will test for that dir before

    # defaulting to the "portable" strategy we use, so this test

    # *must* fail.  *But* this variable cannot be set to anything but

    # "/lib" , because that name is hardcoded in the main executable

    # and this variable controls both both the path AMC will check at

    # runtime, AND the path where the actual modules will be stored at

    # build-time.  This has been reported upstream as

    # https://project.auto-multiple-choice.net/issues/872

    "TEXDIR=/tex/latex/" # what texlive.combine expects

    "TEXDOCDIR=/share/doc/texmf/" # TODO where to put this?

    "MAN1DIR=/share/man/man1"