Re: SLIB and ice-9 slib module

[Sebastian Tennant]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Sorry for the delay...

No problem.  Thanks for your reply.

> Sebastian Tennant <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> An apt-installed slib:
>>
>>  /usr/share/slib
>
> IIRC, the layout of the Debian `slib' package does not match the layout
> of an installed-from-source SLIB, 

Indeed.  Debian installs SLIB under /usr/share/slib.

> which may explain why the symlink trick doesn't work.

>> Having said that, even with the symlink it still fails, so I give up.
>
> The documentation available in Guile 1.8.3 or later also mentions that
> you must create a catalog.

Previously noted.  If I start guile like so:

 $ slib guile
 guile> (require 'new-catalog)
 guile>

this creates the catalog in SLIB's implementation vicinity:

 /usr/share/guile/1.8/slibcat

but if I then run guile normally, I encounter the following error when
calling the (ice-9 slib) module:

 $ guile
 guile> (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
 ERROR: Unbound variable: slib:features
 ABORT: (unbound-variable)
 guile> 

I set the following variables in my .profile:

 # guile-lib, guile-www & guile-pg (when I get it to build)
 [ -d /usr/local/share/guile/site ] && \
     export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="/usr/local/share/guile/site"

 # SLIB's 'library-vicinity'
 [ -d /usr/share/slib ] && \
     export SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/share/slib/"

 # SLIB's 'implementation vicinity'
 [ -d /usr/share/guile/1.8 ] && \
     export GUILE_IMPLEMENTATION_PATH="/usr/share/guile/1.8/"

and /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


This is all just for your/the list's information really, given that
I'm using stock Debian versions of guile and slib.

I'm still able to use SLIB in scripts thanks to SLIB's guile.init:

 #!/usr/bin/guile \
 -l /usr/share/slib/guile.init -s
 !#

but

 (use-modules (ice-9 slib))

wouls be nice :-)

Seb