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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile-vm .go files in GUILE_LOAD_PATH
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:32:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874p4d6q5w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 18730150.2888471221770986002.JavaMail.root@cdptpa-web08-z02

Hi,

<dsmich@roadrunner.com> writes:

> I'm pretty sure the case of not using the already installed system
> .scm files while building is handled now.  I'm thinking more along the
> lines of some user wanted to override a system file for some
> reason. This issue came up for me when I wanted to use a newer gnus
> than what came with the system supplied emacs.  At that time I didn't
> have admin privs so I just installed gnus somewhere under my home dir
> and made sure that the emacs load path searched there first.  Can this
> situation ever come up in Guile?  Maybe.

That can be handled by setting $GUILE_LOAD_PATH appropriately; even
`boot-9.scm' can be overridden this way (which `-L' and `%load-path' do
not allow).

Thanks,
Ludo'.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-18 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-18 20:49 guile-vm .go files in GUILE_LOAD_PATH dsmich
2008-09-18 21:14 ` Andy Wingo
2008-09-18 22:32 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-17 22:57 dsmich
2008-09-18  3:55 ` David Séverin
2008-09-18  7:26 ` Neil Jerram
2008-09-18 18:40 ` Andy Wingo

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