Re: ice-9 and $GUILE_LOAD_PATH

[Dave Pawson]

Hi Neil.

Neil Jerram wrote:

> Yes, indeed, sorry about that.  The incorrect doc was in 1.8.1 through
> 1.8.3, but has been removed now from 1.8.x CVS, so will no longer be
> misleading people in 1.8.4.

Thanks. When's that to be put up on the website please?


> > elisp?
>
> Yes.  guile-debugging is a slight misnomer, because it actually
> provides (or tries to) two overlapping things:

> The two things overlap, because one of the nicest bits (IMHO :-)) is
> how Emacs displays the Scheme stack when stopped at a breakpoint, and
> allows easy navigation of it.

I seldom cease to be amazed at just what emacs can do!

> > And the documentation link http://www.ossau.uklinux.net/guile-debugging
> > is 404.
>
> I'm sorry, I've put something up now at
> http://www.ossau.uklinux.net/guile-debugging that hopefully makes
> sense, and links to the correct doc.

Thanks.

> > Bug reported, but one from 2005 is still not assigned.
>
> Thanks for raising your bug.  The others aren't assigned because I'm
> (so far) the only developer, so there isn't much point.

Ah! Reading the bug submission page it does look as if it's a dead project?


> > I'm assuming it needs to be dropped within the same 'ice-9' area
> > to be picked up by the environmental variable.
>
> guile-debugging could be installed anywhere, so long as you add the
> install location to your GUILE_LOAD_PATH.  In practice, it's most
> convenient to install it somewhere that's already in the standard
> GUILE_LOAD_PATH, i.e. /usr/local/share/guile/site or
> /usr/share/guile/site (depending on the prefix that Guile was
> built).

Ah! /guile/site I'm guessing works the same as site-lisp in emacs
then? Thanks. I'll use that.

I couldn't find any documentation on setting GUILE_LOAD_PATH, then
when it 'failed' to load the debug as defined in the documentation
I presumed I'd done it wrong.




regards

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