How to get Julia home in Julia 0.7?

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How can I get Julia home directory in 0.7? In 0.6 we could ccall jl_get_julia_home, but it seems to be missing from the latest master.

Context: I’m trying to help in migrating Sugar.jl which uses jl_get_julia_home to discover Base sources and extract code from there.

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Perhaps joinpath(homedir(),".julia") ?

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Apparently the runtime function is now jl_get_julia_bindir(), but perhaps it’s better to use Sys.BINDIR.

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joinpath(homedir(),".julia") returns package path, not path to Julia installation where Base files are. Sys.BINDIR does the trick, thanks!

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That’s the default package path, which doesn’t take the JULIA_PKGDIR environment variable into account. Pkg.Dir._pkgroot() should be used on master for the package path. Just to avoid confusion.

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