From 7cfc4e5146be5666419451bdd516f1f3f264d24a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 14:42:51 +0100
Subject: Imported Upstream version 8.5~beta1+dfsg

---
 lib/envars.mli | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/envars.mli')

diff --git a/lib/envars.mli b/lib/envars.mli
index 023b54c0..b62b9f28 100644
--- a/lib/envars.mli
+++ b/lib/envars.mli
@@ -1,25 +1,80 @@
 (************************************************************************)
 (*  v      *   The Coq Proof Assistant  /  The Coq Development Team     *)
-(* <O___,, *   INRIA - CNRS - LIX - LRI - PPS - Copyright 1999-2014     *)
+(* <O___,, *   INRIA - CNRS - LIX - LRI - PPS - Copyright 1999-2015     *)
 (*   \VV/  **************************************************************)
 (*    //   *      This file is distributed under the terms of the       *)
 (*         *       GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1        *)
 (************************************************************************)
 
-(** This file gathers environment variables needed by Coq to run (such
-   as coqlib) *)
+(** This file provides a high-level interface to the environment variables 
+    needed by Coq to run (such as coqlib). The values of these variables
+    may come from different sources (shell environment variables, 
+    command line options, options set at the time Coq was build). *)
 
+(** [expand_path_macros warn s] substitutes environment variables 
+    in a string by their values. This function also takes care of
+    substituting path of the form '~X' by an absolute path. 
+    Use [warn] as a message displayer. *)
+val expand_path_macros : warn:(string -> unit) -> string -> string
+
+(** [home warn] returns the root of the user directory, depending
+    on the OS. This information is usually stored in the $HOME 
+    environment variable on POSIX shells. If no such variable 
+    exists, then other common names are tried (HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH,
+    USERPROFILE). If all of them fail, [warn] is called. *)
+val home : warn:(string -> unit) -> string
+
+(** [coqlib] is the path to the Coq library. *)
 val coqlib : unit -> string
+
+(** [set_coqlib] must be runned once before any access to [coqlib] *)
+val set_coqlib : fail:(string -> string) -> unit
+
+(** [docdir] is the path to the Coq documentation. *)
 val docdir : unit -> string
+
+(** [coqbin] is the name of the current executable. *)
 val coqbin : string
+
+(** [coqroot] is the path to [coqbin]. 
+    The following value only makes sense when executables are running from
+    source tree (e.g. during build or in local mode). 
+*)
 val coqroot : string
-(* coqpath is stored in reverse order, since that is the order it
- * gets added to the searc path *)
-val xdg_config_home : string
-val xdg_dirs : string list
+
+(** [coqpath] is the standard path to coq. 
+    Notice that coqpath is stored in reverse order, since that is 
+    the order it gets added to the search path. *)
 val coqpath : string list
 
+(** [camlbin ()] is the path to the ocaml binaries. *)
 val camlbin : unit -> string
-val camlp4bin : unit -> string
+
+(** [camllib ()] is the path to the ocaml standard library. *)
 val camllib : unit -> string
+
+(** [ocamlc ()] is the ocaml bytecode compiler that compiled this Coq. *)
+val ocamlc   : unit -> string
+
+(** [ocamlc ()] is the ocaml native compiler that compiled this Coq. *)
+val ocamlopt : unit -> string
+
+(** [camlp4bin ()] is the path to the camlp4 binary. *)
+val camlp4bin : unit -> string
+
+(** [camlp4lib ()] is the path to the camlp4 library. *)
 val camlp4lib : unit -> string
+
+(** [camlp4 ()] is the camlp4 utility. *)
+val camlp4 : unit -> string
+
+(** Coq tries to honor the XDG Base Directory Specification to access
+    the user's configuration files.
+
+    see [http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html]
+*)
+val xdg_config_home : (string -> unit) -> string
+val xdg_data_home   : (string -> unit) -> string
+val xdg_config_dirs : (string -> unit) -> string list
+val xdg_data_dirs   : (string -> unit) -> string list
+val xdg_dirs : warn : (string -> unit) -> string list
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