{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9981","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9981/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9981/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9981/events","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9981","id":56125354,"number":9981,"title":"Should `julia_home` point to the root rather than the `bin` directory?","user":{"login":"twadleigh","id":1570926,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1570926?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh","html_url":"https://github.com/twadleigh","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/twadleigh/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-01-31T13:44:36Z","updated_at":"2015-01-31T13:44:36Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'm in the process of trying to get `jl_init` to work without having to provide an argument for the general embedding case.\r\n\r\nMy current patch works on windows because `libjulia.dll` (whose path I'm using to set julia_home) lives in the bin directory there, but breaks on *nix because there it lives in a `lib` directory.\r\n\r\nOf course, it's easy enough to patch the `lib` path to get the `bin` path, but it begs the question as to whether `julia_home` should just point to a level higher.\r\n\r\nOne fact in favor of redefining `julia_home` to point a level higher: the majority of references to it begin by appending \"..\"."}}