Re: SLIB and ice-9 slib module

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>]

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:
>  /usr/share/guile/1.8/ looks like this:
>
>  /usr/share/guile/1.8:
>  total used in directory 308 available 2752472
>  drwxr-xr-x 7 root root    116 Mar 27 14:22 .
>  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     16 Feb 28 23:59 ..
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 291463 Mar  5  2007 guile-procedures.txt
>  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Mar 18 23:25 ice-9
>  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     18 Feb 28 23:59 lang
>  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     34 Feb 28 23:59 oop
>  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Mar 15 20:14 scripts
>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 Mar 18 23:01 slib -> /usr/share/slib
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7818 Mar 27 14:22 slibcat
>  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Mar 18 21:59 srfi

I have since discovered that if the symbolic link is placed in
/usr/share/guile, and NOT a version directory then

 (use-modules (ice-9 slib))

works as intended.  (The catalog 'slibcat' _is_ created in the current
version directory).

The documentation reads:

  2. Define the `SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable:

          $ SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/slib/
          $ export SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH

     Alternatively, you can create a symlink in the Guile directory to
     SLIB, e.g.:

          ln -s /usr/local/lib/slib /usr/local/share/guile/1.8/slib

In my experience ONLY the symlink trick works, provided the
directory

 /usr/share/guile

is used, and not a version directory, such as

 /usr/share/guile/1.8

Setting SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't seem to do anything.

Sebastian