Re: Guile extensions path (includes PATCH)

["Aleix Conchillo Flaqué" <aconchillo@gmail.com>]

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Any thoughts on this one?

Thanks,

Aleix

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 7:54 PM Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <aconchillo@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was adding guile-ncurses to homebrew-guile and realized there might be
> an issue in the documentation.
>
> According to this:
>
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Modules-and-Extensions.html
>
> the extensions directory is /usr/lib/guile/3.0/ (or
> /usr/local/lib/guile/3.0/m depending on your libdir). This is the
> directory where guile-ncurses installs libguile-ncurses library.
>
> However, I then saw that guile-readline was installed in
> /usr/local/lib/guile/3.0/extensions. I initially thought this was a
> Homebrew specific location. I looked at the Formula but there's nothing
> specific to Homebrew there.
>
> Then, I looked at guile and found this:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/libguile/Makefile.am#n772
>
> which indicates the extensions path is really /usr/lib/guile/3.0/
> extensions.
>
> I patched guile-ncurses with this and it works fine now on macOS.
>
> In case this is correct, I'm including a patch to fix the manual.
>
> Best,
>
> Aleix
>
>

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