1 This document describes the various directories and environment
2 variables relating to directories used by Maxima.
4 As of version 5.9.1, Maxima supports two different installed
9 The "source" layout is that of the Maxima tarball (and cvs module.)
10 The "autotools" layout is the layout of the files installed by the
13 Maxima needs to know the following locations:
15 1) The parent directory for Maxima compiled images/executables:
18 2) The parent directory for Maxima share files:
21 3) The parent directory for the sym package:
24 4) The parent directory for Maxima source files:
27 5) The parent directory for Maxima demo files:
30 6) The parent directory for Maxima test files:
33 7) The parent directory for general documentation
36 8) The parent directory for Maxima info documentation:
39 9) The parent directory for Maxima html documentation:
42 10) The parent directory for the Maxima plotting tcl scripts:
45 In order to determine the layout for the locations, it needs to know
46 which installed directory layout is being used:
48 11) Whether maxima should use the "autotools" layout:
49 maxima-layout-autotools
51 Maxima also will read user files from a directory in the user's
52 area. This directory is independent of the installed layout:
54 12) The parent directory for user's files:
57 13) The parent directory for temporary files:
60 Maxima needs to know location of locale specific data
61 (translated documentation, localized messages etc):
63 14) The sub-directory for locale specific data:
65 Usually value of this variable is automatically derived
66 from current user's locale.