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Re: %load-path when Guile sits in /usr.


Craig Brozefsky <craig@onshore.com> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> 
> > I think that when Guile is part of a OS distribution (for example as a
> > Debian or RPM package) and is thus installed in /usr, then it should
> > add /usr/local/share/guile (and /usr/local/share/guile/site?) to its
> > default load path.
> 
> This is actually something I am going to be trying to deal with over
> the next few days, as the Debian maintainer for guile.

Great!
 
> Well, in a round about way we do, which is that they can just modify
> it themselves in the source code.  I do not know of an easy way to add
> to %load-path at compile time, perhaps we should make a ./configure
> argument for this?

Yes, I think a configure option would be the right thing.  What form
should it take?  --enable-extra-load-path=... ?