common: add system-level config file (#26118)

* common: Add CLI > ENV > models-presets > INI precedence

1. CLI flags have the highest precedence
2. ENV vars have the second-highest precedence
3. System and User configs have the lowest precedence
   - Linux/BSD/Mac
     - /etc/llama.cpp/config.ini < ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/llama.cpp/config.ini
   - Windows
     - %PROGRAMDATA%\llama.cpp\config.ini < %APPDATA%\llama.cpp\config.ini

* fix UB

* use common_get_env

* ignore_unknown_keys

* nits

* add docs

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Co-authored-by: Xuan Son Nguyen <son@huggingface.co>
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Johnathan Craig Maudlin 2026-08-12 18:02:27 -04:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -1019,20 +1019,21 @@ std::string fs_get_cache_directory() {
std::string cache_directory = "";
auto ensure_trailing_slash = [](std::string p) {
// Make sure to add trailing slash
if (p.back() != DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
if (p.empty() || p.back() != DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
p += DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
}
return p;
};
if (getenv("LLAMA_CACHE")) {
cache_directory = std::getenv("LLAMA_CACHE");
} else {
cache_directory = common_get_env("LLAMA_CACHE");
if (cache_directory.empty()) {
#if defined(__linux__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(_AIX) || \
defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__)
if (std::getenv("XDG_CACHE_HOME")) {
cache_directory = std::getenv("XDG_CACHE_HOME");
} else if (std::getenv("HOME")) {
cache_directory = std::getenv("HOME") + std::string("/.cache/");
const std::string xdg_cache_home = common_get_env("XDG_CACHE_HOME");
const std::string home = common_get_env("HOME");
if (!xdg_cache_home.empty()) {
cache_directory = xdg_cache_home;
} else if (!home.empty()) {
cache_directory = home + "/.cache/";
} else {
#if defined(__linux__)
/* no $HOME is defined, fallback to getpwuid */
@ -1047,9 +1048,16 @@ std::string fs_get_cache_directory() {
#endif /* defined(__linux__) */
}
#elif defined(__APPLE__)
cache_directory = std::getenv("HOME") + std::string("/Library/Caches/");
cache_directory = common_get_env("HOME");
if (cache_directory.empty()) {
throw std::runtime_error("Failed to find $HOME directory");
}
cache_directory += "/Library/Caches/";
#elif defined(_WIN32)
cache_directory = std::getenv("LOCALAPPDATA");
cache_directory = common_get_env("LOCALAPPDATA");
if (cache_directory.empty()) {
throw std::runtime_error("Failed to find %LOCALAPPDATA% directory");
}
#elif defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__)
GGML_ABORT("not implemented on this platform");
#else
@ -1061,6 +1069,51 @@ std::string fs_get_cache_directory() {
return ensure_trailing_slash(cache_directory);
}
std::string fs_get_config_directory() {
std::string config_directory = "";
auto ensure_trailing_slash = [](std::string p) {
if (p.empty() || p.back() != DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
p += DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
}
return p;
};
#if defined(__linux__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(_AIX) || \
defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__APPLE__)
const std::string xdg_config_home = common_get_env("XDG_CONFIG_HOME");
const std::string home = common_get_env("HOME");
if (!xdg_config_home.empty()) {
config_directory = xdg_config_home;
} else if (!home.empty()) {
config_directory = home + "/.config/";
} else {
#if defined(__linux__)
/* no $HOME is defined, fallback to getpwuid */
struct passwd *pw = getpwuid(getuid());
if ((!pw) || (!pw->pw_dir)) {
throw std::runtime_error("Failed to find $HOME directory");
}
config_directory = std::string(pw->pw_dir) + std::string("/.config/");
#else
throw std::runtime_error("Failed to find $HOME directory");
#endif
}
#elif defined(_WIN32)
config_directory = common_get_env("APPDATA");
if (config_directory.empty()) {
throw std::runtime_error("Failed to find %APPDATA% directory");
}
#elif defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__)
// caller decides what to do when there is no config directory
throw std::runtime_error("not implemented on this platform");
#else
# error Unknown architecture
#endif
config_directory = ensure_trailing_slash(config_directory);
config_directory += "llama.cpp";
return ensure_trailing_slash(config_directory);
}
std::string fs_get_cache_file(const std::string & filename) {
GGML_ASSERT(filename.find(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) == std::string::npos);
std::string cache_directory = fs_get_cache_directory();