Re: Compiling - won't use from site-dir?

[Christopher Howard]

On Wed, 2017-09-13 at 10:41 +0100, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:05:54 -0800
> Christopher Howard <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, as reading in guile manual section "Modules and the File
> > System",
> > I installed my-module.scm to %site-dir and then my-module.go to
> > %site-
> > dir. But when I run guile interpreter and use-modules my-module, it
> > ignores that one, and instead acts as though the cache in my home
> > directory is the only place to get compiled modules. So it will
> > compile the .go file into my cache even if one is in the %site-dir
> > already.
> > 
> > I tried naming it my-module.scm.go instead, but same results.
> 
> This bit of the documentation should help: "As with Scheme files,
> Guile
> searches a path to find compiled .go files, the %load-compiled-path.
> By
> default, this path has two entries: a path for Guile’s files, and a
> path for site packages. You should install your .go files into the
> latter directory, whose value is returned by invoking the
> %site-ccache-dir procedure. As in the previous example, if Guile 2.2
> is
> installed on your system in /usr/, then (%site-ccache-dir) site
> packages will be /usr/lib/guile/2.2/site-ccache"
> 
> Chris
> 

Thank you very much for your help. That is just what I needed, and it
works correctly.

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