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auto-multiple-choice: Use default value for $MODSDIR

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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.
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Thibault Polge 2023-02-15 18:54:50 +01:00
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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"