From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Modified load-path proposal Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:23:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87r7af96ai.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <878xwx5ld2.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <8764s0a7e6.fsf@laas.fr> <8764rzj8py.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87ach8bmdg.fsf@laas.fr> <87oe5o81xi.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87fyqzl0ku.fsf@laas.fr> <87k6g9b0mu.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87irvssjf5.fsf@laas.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129847151 7638 80.91.229.2 (20 Oct 2005 22:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 21 00:25:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESipX-00029N-Ui for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:24:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESipX-0006Sz-CI for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESip4-0006Iq-GY for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:23:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESip3-0006IB-9I for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESip3-0006I5-0p for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESip3-000294-0P for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns (host81-130-181-102.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.130.181.102]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E31B409FB4 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:23:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196066F6CE for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:23:34 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Guile Users In-Reply-To: <87irvssjf5.fsf@laas.fr> ( =?iso-8859-1?q?Ludovic_Court=E8s's_message_of?= "Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:05:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:4884 Archived-At: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> Sorry, I'm not understanding how guilelibdir/guileobjectdir differ >> from (2). > > You proposed a single M4 macro, `GUILE_SCHEME_DIR', which would provide > the user with the ability to customize only *one* installation > directory: the one were Scheme files will go. In your scheme (as I > understand it), the other directories (the one for shared objects in > particular) are *imposed*: the user cannot change them. > > What I'm saying in (1) is that the user should be able to choose these > two (or three) directories at installation time. Perhaps, yes, but I don't (personally) want to get into the object/lib file location debate yet, because I know very little about libtool and other aspects of the issue, and because I believe that other Guile developers believe that there are good reasons for the status quo. Also it seems very unlikely that the outcome of that debate would affect the details of a GUILE_SCHEME_DIR macro. You're welcome to continue that debate, of course, but to be honest it's probably better to wait until Marius and/or Rob have bandwidth to describe the problems that they see with Vorfeed's "obvious" solution. Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user