Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page

[Mark Harig <idirectscm@aim.com>]

>
> 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...
>

If a user has followed the instructions in the section "Obtaining and
Installing Guile", and installed guile in the "/usr/local/" directory
tree, then, on systems that use the dynamic linker/loader ld.so or
ld-linux.so*, the instructions in the section "Linking Guile into
Programs" will fail because the new program 'simple-guile' will not be
able to locate the shared library 'libguile-2.0.so*'.

Here is some suggested text for the ENVIRONMENT and SEE ALSO sections
of the guile.1 manual page:

ENVIRONMENT
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH
       This variable may need to be set on operating systems that use
       the dynamic linker/loader ld.so/ld-linux.so* to specify where
       the shared libraries that are provided by Guile can be found.
       The variable should provide a colon-separated list of
       directories.

       For example, in the bash shell the following assignment may be
       used:

          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

       More information about this variable can be found in the
       documentation for the dynamic linker/loader (ld.so(8) or
       ld-linux.so(8)).

SEE ALSO
       ld.so(8), ld-linux.so(8)


Another item of information that would be useful to add to the guile.1
manual page would be the date and version of Guile that the manual
page describes.  For example, the Emacs manual page lists the date
that it is effective and the version.  This appears at the bottom of
the manual page, even though the directive describing it appears at
the top of emacs.1:

.TH EMACS 1 "2007 April 13" "GNU Emacs 23.2"

Likewise, Guile might have:

.TH GUILE 1 "2011 Jan 16" "GNU Guile 2.0"

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