Re: Feature request: make Guile compiler always write absolute paths in .go files for Geiser compatiblity

[Vili Aapro <vili.aapro@iki.fi>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:26:31 +0200
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:

> Sounds like a very bad idea.  The absolute file name would be somewhere 
> in the build directory, which very likely doesn't exist anymore on a 
> typical installation.

Yes, you are right.

> I suppose that whatever code 
> is responsible for loading .go/.scm can be adjusted to add a prefix 
> turning it in an absolute file name.

Yes, this must be the way. The loader should do the job.

>  > One wrong way to find out the absolute path would be to go through
>  > %load-path, but the semantics of that would break under mutation.
> Can you elaborate?

I was just thinking of a dirty fix on the Emacs side of things, to search for the module through %load-path, that that would break when %load-path was mutated.