Variable names of package hierarchies

[Ville Skyttä]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 08:21 +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:
> * Ralf Angeli <angeli at iwi.uni-sb.de> writes:
> 
>   > In XEmacs 21.5 the variable names for package hierarchies were changed
>   > from {early,late,last}-packages to
>   > {early,late,last}-package-hierarchies.  AUCTeX looks for the old
>   > variable names in its build procedure and fails when being configured
>   > with XEmacs 21.5 due to the change of names.
> 
> That stuff is internal, there shouldn't be any reason for AUCTeX to
> look at it.  If you are trying to determine installation directories,
> it's simple...
> 
>   System-wide:
> 
>         $prefix/lib/xemacs/site-packages/

It's not that simple, depending of course on exactly what one wants to
support.  For example, many distributions patch the above to
$prefix/share/xemacs/[...].