From: Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding to the end of the load path
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:35:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A12541.1070002@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87390f95ap.fsf@tines.lan>
On 11/11/12 13:51, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> This is certainly the cleanest solution, but there is a complication: if
> a user has multiple versions of Guile installed on their system, some of
> which look for GUILE_LOAD_PATH_SUFFIX and some which do not, there is no
> way for them to configure their environment variables that will work
> correctly for all versions. Guile 2.0.5 will be widely deployed until
> at least 2017, since it is part of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. We have to cope
> with that somehow.
Declare Guile 2.0.5 to be buggy and recommend Ubuntu/Debian to
upgrade with a patch that fixes the LD_LIBRARY_PATH/*_LOAD_PATH stuff?
> What do you think?
Maybe a 2.0.5.1 release that just fixes this bit and fold it
into the main branch, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-12 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-05 3:18 Adding to the end of the load path Ian Price
2012-11-08 1:03 ` Andreas Rottmann
2012-11-11 7:50 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-11 19:02 ` Andreas Rottmann
2012-11-11 21:51 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-12 16:35 ` Bruce Korb [this message]
2012-11-13 21:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-15 22:06 ` Andreas Rottmann
2012-11-15 22:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-15 22:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-15 23:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-16 0:10 ` Noah Lavine
2012-11-16 14:00 ` Noah Lavine
2012-11-16 18:06 ` Bruce Korb
2012-11-16 18:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-16 21:38 ` Noah Lavine
2012-11-28 23:12 ` [PATCH] Add parse-path-with-ellipsis, and use it for GUILE_LOAD_PATH et al Mark H Weaver
2012-11-28 23:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-29 3:04 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-11-29 10:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
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