Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page

[Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>]

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