docs/README.paths

   1 Search paths
   2 ============
   3
   4 To attempt to emulate the search path facility of the C preprocessor,
   5 Inform is compiled with some built-in search paths.  For include files,
   6 this is (in order of searching):
   7
   8     .                           current directory
   9     PKGDATA/include             local include directory
  10     PKGDATA/lib                 local library directory
  11     PKGDATA/VERSION/include     system include directory
  12     PKGDATA/VERSION/lib         system library directory
  13
  14 where PKGDATA is the package data prefix (default: /usr/local/share/inform)
  15 and VERSION is the Inform version.  For modules, the search path is:
  16
  17     .                           current directory
  18     PKGDATA/lib                 local library directory
  19     PKGDATA/VERSION/lib         system library directory
  20
  21 This is as if Inform has been given the +include_file and +module_file
  22 arguments with the comma-separated lists of directories shown above.
  23 However, note that explicitly giving one of these arguments to Inform will
  24 override the default setting, not prepend to it, as with the C
  25 preprocessor.