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Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Harig Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:05:04 -0500 Message-ID: <8CD8A324581361C-10BC-582F@webmail-d094.sysops.aol.com> 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"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295910866 26940 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2011 23:14:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:14:26 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 25 00:14:22 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 1PhVc5-00075d-Tq for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:14:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38831 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhVWH-0002Ev-C3 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:08:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52363 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhVUz-0001ru-FE for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:08:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhVTT-0003HZ-Mj for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:05:28 -0500 Original-Received: from imr-db02.mx.aol.com ([205.188.91.96]:63771) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhVTT-0003H4-KS for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:05:27 -0500 Original-Received: from imo-ma04.mx.aol.com (imo-ma04.mx.aol.com [64.12.78.139]) by imr-db02.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p0ON5As4010839; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: from idirectscm@aim.com by imo-ma04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.9.) id 7.c30.7f366019 (37559); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:05:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from smtprly-db01.mx.aol.com (smtprly-db01.mx.aol.com [205.188.249.152]) by cia-mb03.mx.aol.com (v129.7) with ESMTP id MAILCIAMB038-5bc44d3e05a01c4; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:05:06 -0500 Original-Received: from webmail-d094 (webmail-d094.sim.aol.com [205.188.255.5]) by smtprly-db01.mx.aol.com (v129.5) with ESMTP id MAILSMTPRLYDB013-5bc44d3e05a01c4; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:05:04 -0500 X-MB-Message-Type: User Original-Received: from 98.185.24.91 by webmail-d094.sysops.aol.com (205.188.255.5) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:05:04 -0500 X-AOL-IP: 98.185.24.91 X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI X-Mailer: AIM WebMail 33124-STANDARD In-Reply-To: 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:5021 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:06:20PM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > > On Thu 13 Jan 2011 22:58, Mark Harig writes: > > > 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 think we fixed this in the 1.9 series, in commits > eb350124a85dd4daf39bacbdc50452ef87a33a43 and > 28af5ee5eccb7797b73ad1caf88183e95eef0a28. Is there something that is > not working for you with 1.9.14, or are you working off of 1.8? > Yes, the instructions in "Section 2.3 Linking Guile into Programs" failed when I attempted to run the generated 'simple-guile' executable file. [guile]$ unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH [guile]$ ./simple-guile ./simple-guile: error while loading shared libraries: libguile-2.0.so.18: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [guile]$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=3D/usr/local/lib [guile]$ ./simple-guile GNU Guile 1.9.14 Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'. This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details. Enter `,help' for help. scheme@(guile-user)> ,q [guile]$ locate libguile-2.0.so.18 /usr/local/lib/libguile-2.0.so.18 /usr/local/lib/libguile-2.0.so.18.0.0 --