From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Harig Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:01 -0500 Message-ID: <8CD83EB73A55053-1624-1C633@webmail-m056.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CD818429F4EFE0-D0C-28BFF@Webmail-m115.sysops.aol.com> <87d3nxgaf9.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295220202 21584 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2011 23:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:23:22 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 17 00:23:18 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 1PebwL-0006X5-KF for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:23:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PebwL-0006Px-22 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43060 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PebwG-0006Ps-86 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PebwF-0007aJ-2Y for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:12 -0500 Original-Received: from imr-ma03.mx.aol.com ([64.12.206.41]:36326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PebwE-0007aF-VE for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:11 -0500 Original-Received: from imo-ma03.mx.aol.com (imo-ma03.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.138]) by imr-ma03.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p0GNNA8F001212 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:10 -0500 Original-Received: from idirectscm@aim.com by imo-ma03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.9.) id 7.c02.84c84bed (55834) for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from smtprly-me02.mx.aol.com (smtprly-me02.mx.aol.com [64.12.95.103]) by cia-md06.mx.aol.com (v129.7) with ESMTP id MAILCIAMD062-b2cd4d337dd51a3; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:05 -0500 Original-Received: from webmail-m056 (webmail-m056.sim.aol.com [64.12.158.156]) by smtprly-me02.mx.aol.com (v129.5) with ESMTP id MAILSMTPRLYME025-b2cd4d337dd51a3; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:01 -0500 X-AOL-IP: 98.185.24.91 In-Reply-To: <87d3nxgaf9.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI X-MB-Message-Type: User X-Mailer: AIM WebMail 33069-STANDARD Original-Received: from 98.185.24.91 by webmail-m056.sysops.aol.com (64.12.158.156) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:23:01 -0500 X-AOL-SENDER: idirectscm@aim.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:4966 Archived-At: 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=20 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"). --