Re: Does $DATADIR work?

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

$DATADIR appears in the manual just as a placeholder for
whatever your user data directory is (see --data-dir).
The environment variable has no effect.  I've made a tweak
in the manual to make that clearer.

Note that the default user data dir is ~/.pandoc (on *nix),
so if you just symlink that wherever you like, that's the
most convenient solution.

+++ BillS [Oct 18 17 06:34 ]:
>   I have been asked to set up pandoc for an HPC cluster and while most of
>   the set up has gone fairly smoothly, we are having issues resolving the
>   path to the templates and other "data" files -- they resolve to the
>   build directory not the install directory.
>   When we test with the --data-dir argument it works fine, but we would
>   like to be able to set it 'once and forever'. In the man pages/user
>   guide it looks as though there is an option to set an environment
>   variable ($DATADIR) that would do the same thing as the command line
>   argument, but we have not been able to get that to work.
>   Is the $DATADIR environment variable supported? Is there a better way
>   to 'once and forever' point to the correct data directory?
>   Thank you for any hints and pointers.
>
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