From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The load path Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:43:37 +0200 Message-ID: <1100537017.19830.147.camel@localhost> References: <1097949129.4178.31.camel@localhost> <418C126D.5010802@ossau.uklinux.net> <87u0s3r30n.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <418D0EAE.40703@ossau.uklinux.net> <1100112232.3368.19.camel@localhost> <41952B9C.1020408@ossau.uklinux.net> <87y8h65ze4.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <41973812.9030106@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100592315 8737 80.91.229.6 (16 Nov 2004 08:05:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:05:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 09:05:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTyKk-0007if-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:05:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTyTU-0006E9-Pq for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:14:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTyTP-0006E3-I5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:13:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTyTP-0006Dr-65 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:13:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTyTP-0006Do-2w for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:13:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.166.232.203] (helo=johnson-resources.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CTyKK-0002Pd-W7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:04:37 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (mantis.schoolnet.na [::ffff:196.44.140.238]) (AUTH: LOGIN wingo) by johnson-resources.com with esmtp; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:04:21 -0500 id 001201C7.4199B48D.0000622E Original-Received: from wingo by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTjxO-0002YB-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:43:58 +0200 Original-To: guile-devel In-Reply-To: <41973812.9030106@ossau.uklinux.net> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4398 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4398 On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 10:48 +0000, Neil Jerram wrote: > Rob Browning wrote: > > --with-built-in-load-path='("foo" default "bar")' > > This looks good to me. If this option is not specified, I presume the > default load path is ("$prefix/share/guile/site" > "$prefix/share/guile/$effective_version" "$prefix/share/guile") This sounds good to me as well for 1.7, but with one reservation: there are hordes of linux users that just do ./configure; make; make install for all autoconf'd software they download. I don't want to have to tell each one of them to set --prefix if they want the program to actually work. This means, distributors must be made aware that guile should follow the system C compiler's conventions, so that users are not surprised. Furthermore, if they put a /usr/local dir in the path, it should be before the default paths. It would be strange to require a configure argument --disable-broken in order for your program to work. Cheers, -- Andy Wingo http://ambient.2y.net/wingo/ _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel