From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: guile-vm .go files in GUILE_LOAD_PATH Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:32:43 +0200 Message-ID: <874p4d6q5w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <18730150.2888471221770986002.JavaMail.root@cdptpa-web08-z02> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221777185 7555 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2008 22:33:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:33:05 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 00:34:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KgS4X-0002fg-KE for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:34:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KgS3W-0001s3-9D for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:32:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KgS3T-0001ri-7i for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:32:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KgS3R-0001rV-In for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:32:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54546 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KgS3R-0001rS-GV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33238 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KgS3R-0005PW-9x for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KgS3P-0006kZ-60 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:32:51 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:32:51 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:32:51 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: Jour de la Raison de =?iso-8859-1?Q?l'Ann=E9e?= 216 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d0YpFZ6YPleMpZY7OL5t0V1bGko= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7729 Archived-At: Hi, 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'.