Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page

[Mark Harig <idirectscm@aim.com>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 08:48:58PM +0000, Neil Jerram wrote:
>
> > 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...
>

Related:

  - There is no description in the Guile manual page,
    guile.1, or the Guile Reference Manual, guile.info*, of
    the environment variable GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE.

  - The reference manual also briefly mentions the
    environment variable GUILE_HISTORY (it describes the
    default value as `.guile_history', but does not mention
    its default location, presumably $HOME, correct?), but
    the manual page does not mention it.

  - Is there an environment variable that can specify the
    name of the Guile initialization file (default: .guile)?

  - Are there any other environment variables that are not
    documented in the Guile Reference Manual?

  - For comparison, the Emacs manual includes a section
    describing the environment variables that may effect it
    when it is invoked.  See the Info node "(emacs)
    Environment" (a subsection of the appendix "Invoking
    Emacs").

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