From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:48:58 +0000 Message-ID: <87d3nxgaf9.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <8CD818429F4EFE0-D0C-28BFF@Webmail-m115.sysops.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295124561 32735 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2011 20:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Mark Harig Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 15 21:49:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PeD3k-0002XX-UZ for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:49:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PeD3e-0004sj-MY for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57503 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PeD3X-0004rD-Sg for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:49:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PeD3W-00018m-5i for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:50229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PeD3W-00017f-1K for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:49:02 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (unknown [78.149.119.15]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FE51F66C1; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:49:00 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from neil-laptop (unknown [192.168.11.3]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AD03801E; Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:48:59 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <8CD818429F4EFE0-D0C-28BFF@Webmail-m115.sysops.aol.com> (Mark Harig's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:58:36 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:4954 Archived-At: Mark Harig 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