Purpose: to contain discussion relating to an installation directory structure that is recommended for people writing tcl extensions or applications.
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By default, extensions should use two main groups of locations for installing things, one for architecture-independent files, and one for architecture-dependent files.
--prefix specifies the location of the architecture-independent files (e.g. Tcl scripts, header files, documentation) and is conventionally /usr/local by default. Beneath this location, the following places are usually defined:
--exec-prefix specifies the location of architecture-dependent files (binary extensions, etc.)
--prefix /usr/local default location for tcl pieces
/include header file(s) needed when writing
code against a library
/lib location where Tcl only extensions
are installed
/lib/extension.version.level
location for pkgIndex.tcl files, tcl
files, etc.
/bin location where Tcl only applications
are installed
--exec-prefix /usr/local default location for binary parts of tcl
/lib location where binary extensions
and their pkgIndex.tcl are installed
/lib/extension.version.level
location for pkgIndex.tcl files, .so
files, etc.
/bin location where binary applications
are installed