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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Mark Harig <idirectscm@aim.com>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:48:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3nxgaf9.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CD818429F4EFE0-D0C-28BFF@Webmail-m115.sysops.aol.com> (Mark Harig's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:58:36 -0500")

Mark Harig <idirectscm@aim.com> writes:

> Looking at the latest revision pulled from the git repository:
>
> 1) The manual page does not document the '-q' command-line option.
>
> 2) The manual page includes the text:
>
>      "There is also a tutorial (info guile-tut) available."
>
>      It appears that the Guile tutorial is no longer available as a
>     separate Info manual, so this text should be deleted.

Thanks, I'll fix these.

> 3) Should the manual page include some information about the
>      environment variable 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' in the ENVIRONMENT
>      section, or is this considered to be an O/S-dependent variable?

I'd say too OS-dependent; or more to do with how guile should be
properly installed, than how to use it once it is installed.

But on the other hand, I might be misunderstanding what you had in mind;
if you'd like to propose some specific text...

Thanks,
        Neil



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-15 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-13 21:58 Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page Mark Harig
2011-01-15 20:48 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2011-01-16 19:38   ` Mark Harig
2011-01-19 19:50     ` Ken Raeburn
2011-01-20  2:31       ` Mark Harig
2011-01-24 21:07       ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-16 23:23   ` Mark Harig
2011-01-24 21:54     ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-25  7:05       ` Mark Harig
2011-03-04  9:35         ` Andy Wingo
     [not found]           ` <8CDA8E5BB95D253-584-D4A3@webmail-m087.sysops.aol.com>
2011-03-05 19:29             ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-24 21:06 ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-24 23:05   ` Mark Harig

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