Re: [Axiom-developer] FW: [TeXmacs] Axiom plugin

[Ralf Treinen]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:52:02AM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:

> In the Debian package, I supply a shell script wrapper in the default
> path (/usr/bin) to setup the AXIOM and PATH environment variables
> before calling AXIOMsys.  I tried to make the Debian package preserve
> the file tree structure axiom generates (in e.g. mnt/linux) on build,
> and to do this, one has to put this directory somewhere like
> /usr/lib/axiom-$(VERSION), in which case AXIOMsys will never be in the
> user's default path.  Hence the need of a wrapper in the path, unless
> I'm missing something.  It would be good if this was standardized in
> some manner.

That's perfectly OK, it is common practice in Debian in case an
executable needs some environment variables set.

-Ralf.
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