Re: Retrieving the "include" directory for Emacs Modules

[Björn Bidar]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 10:30:41 -0500
>> From:  Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
>> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> > Careful: the above might pick up header files private to source
>> > distributions if you have them on your system (i.e., if you build
>> > packages locally from sources).  By contrast, this discussion is about
>> > _public_ header files, ones installed with the purpose of letting
>> > other packages interface with the package whose header file is
>> > installed.
>> 
>> I'll let you judge.
>> 
>> 
>>         Stefan
>> 
>> 
>> % locate '*.h' | sed 's|[^/]*$||' | sort -u | grep -v 'monnier\|/usr/include'
>> /usr/lib/clisp-2.49.93+/base/
>> /usr/lib/clisp-2.49.93+/linkkit/
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/include/
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/include/sanitizer/
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/12/include/
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/12/include/sanitizer/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/base-4.15.1.0/include/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/bytestring-0.10.12.1/include/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/ghc-9.0.2/include/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/ghc-bignum-1.1/include/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/include/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/include/rts/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/include/rts/prof/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/include/rts/storage/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/include/stg/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/process-1.6.13.2/include/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/time-1.9.3/include/
>> /usr/lib/ghc/unix-2.7.2.2/include/
>> /usr/lib/gprolog/include/
>> /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/
>> /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/
>> /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-9.0.2/primitive-0.7.3.0-EikPDi9CXNiB9f5MDJybeY/include/
>> /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-9.0.2/vector-0.12.3.1-TXkE6leK98EdYcmdk29JF/include/
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64/include/
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64/include/linux/
>> /usr/lib/llvm-14/lib/clang/14.0.6/include/
>> /usr/lib/llvm-14/lib/clang/14.0.6/include/openmp_wrappers/
>> /usr/lib/llvm-14/lib/clang/14.0.6/include/ppc_wrappers/
>> /usr/lib/llvm-14/lib/clang/14.0.6/include/xray/
>> /usr/lib/ocaml/caml/
>> /usr/lib/ocaml/zarith/
>> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dulwich/
>> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/greenlet/
>> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/greenlet/platform/
>> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lxml/
>> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lxml/includes/
>> /usr/lib/swi-prolog/include/
>> /usr/lib/swi-prolog/include/sicstus/
>> /usr/lib/swi-prolog/include/Yap/
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include/dbus/
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include/
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.36.0/CORE/
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.36/B/Hooks/OP/Check/Install/
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.36/Cairo/Install/
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.36/Encode/
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.36/Glib/Install/
>> /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.24/x86_64-linux-gnu/include/
>> /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.24/x86_64-linux-gnu/include/m/
>> /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.24/x86_64-linux-gnu/include/s/
>> /usr/share/cmake-3.25/include/
>> /usr/share/cmake-3.25/Modules/

Those are cmake test headers.

>> /usr/share/cups/ppdc/
>> /usr/share/doc/bison/examples/c/mfcalc/
>> /usr/share/doc/guile-3.0-dev/examples/compat/
>> /usr/share/doc/libzstd-dev/examples/
>> /usr/share/doc/nettle-dev/examples/
>> /usr/share/doc/printer-driver-pnm2ppa/pl/
>> /usr/share/doc/zlib1g-dev/examples/
>> /usr/share/gettext/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/misc/cgo/life/testdata/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/misc/cgo/test/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/misc/cgo/testplugin/testdata/issue25756/plugin/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/misc/cgo/testsovar/testdata/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/misc/cgo/test/testdata/gcc68255/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/misc/cgo/test/testdata/issue20266/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/misc/cgo/test/testdata/issue26213/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/misc/cgo/test/testdata/issue27054/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/misc/swig/callback/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/pkg/include/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/src/crypto/internal/boring/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/src/debug/dwarf/testdata/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/src/debug/gosym/testdata/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/src/runtime/
>> /usr/share/go-1.19/src/runtime/cgo/
>> /usr/share/grub/
>> /usr/share/libtool/
>> /usr/share/libtool/libltdl/
>> /usr/share/perl/5.36.0/Encode/
>> /usr/share/smartmontools/
>> /usr/src/libdvd-pkg/build/
>> /usr/src/libdvd-pkg/build/msvc/
>> /usr/src/libdvd-pkg/build/src/
>> /usr/src/libdvd-pkg/build/src/dvdcss/
>> /usr/src/linux-apfs-rw-0.3.0-1/
>> /usr/src/linux-apfs-rw-0.3.0-1/lzfse/
>> /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/
>> % 
>
> Those under /usr/lib are looked in by the relevant compilers (they are
> include directories private to those compilers, hard-coded into them
> when they are built).  Those under /usr/share are private to the
> relevant packages, and are either examples or test suites (thus AFAIU
> unrelated to the issue at hand here).  Those under /usr/src are what I
> mentioned: private headers needed to build a package.

In addition some of them could be overlooked by distribution packagers