From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The load path Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:02:18 +0000 Message-ID: <41973B3A.8080008@ossau.uklinux.net> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100430274 10001 80.91.229.6 (14 Nov 2004 11:04:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel , Rob Browning Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 14 12:04:21 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 1CTIBA-000550-00 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:04:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTIJo-0005W3-I8 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:13:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTIJc-0005Tr-Gf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTIJb-0005T6-8F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTIJa-0005SQ-JY for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:13:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTIAu-0000j4-K3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:04:04 -0500 Original-Received: from laruns (host81-130-105-202.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.130.105.202]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062A5409FB2; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from ossau.uklinux.net (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBCF6FA1F; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:02:19 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: Greg Troxel In-Reply-To: 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:4390 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4390 Greg Troxel wrote: > --with-built-in-load-path='("foo" default "bar")' > >That looks good. The question is whether that's about prefixes, or >actual directories. It might be nice to have some way to specify >either, where prefix means the default list of places in a prefix. > > I think the extras can be actual directories, as: - it seems to me there isn't a strong need for extra prefixes: the point about .../1.6 versus .../site is to provide a distinction between code installed by the Guile install itself, and code installed by third parties; so $additional_prefix/share/guile/1.6 would usually be pointless and unused - in the case where one explicitly wants to include the non-site directory of another Guile installation (dangerous though this sounds!), one can do so by listing it as an "actual directory"; also note that if one is doing such strange things, the $effective_version of the other Guile install might be different from the one being configured, so the prefix approach wouldn't help anyway. >It would also be nice to be able to include $prefix/lib/guile/site, so >that packages intended for guile ttn-1.4 work without needing a >symlink into share. > > Out of interest, can you expand on this? What kind of file is installed there, and is that the only thing needed to make ttn-guile packages work? Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel