A package configuration file is expected at the root of every package. The file is used to figure out the module path under which the package must be placed. This information is also useful for installation.
==== lambdapi.pkg ============ # only two required fields: package_name = my_package root_path = contrib.my_pack # comments not at end of line undefined = ignored ==============================
find_config fname looks for a configuration file above fname, which is typically a source file or an object file (it can also be a directory). If there is no configuration file in the same directory as fname, then we look in the parent directory and so on, up to the root or as long as no Sys_error is raised. Note that fname is first normalized with a call to Filename.realpath.