Re: Missing and out-of-date information in guile.1, the Guile man page

[Mark Harig]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 08:48:58PM +0000, Neil Jerram wrote:
> > 3) Should the manual page include some information about the
> >      environment variable 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' in the ENVIRONMENT
> >      section, or is this considered to be an O/S-dependent variable?
>
> I'd say too OS-dependent; or more to do with how guile should be
> properly installed, than how to use it once it is installed.
>
> But on the other hand, I might be misunderstanding what you had in 
mind;
> if you'd like to propose some specific text...

Related:

 - There is no description in the Guile manual page,
   guile.1, or the Guile Reference Manual, guile.info*, of
   the environment variable GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE.

 - The reference manual also briefly mentions the
   environment variable GUILE_HISTORY (it describes the
   default value as `.guile_history', but does not mention
   its default location, presumably $HOME, correct?), but
   the manual page does not mention it.

 - Is there an environment variable that can specify the
   name of the Guile initialization file (default: .guile)?

 - Are there any other environment variables that are not
   documented in the Guile Reference Manual?

 - For comparison, the Emacs manual includes a section
   describing the environment variables that may effect it
   when it is invoked.  See the Info node "(emacs)
   Environment" (a subsection of the appendix "Invoking
   Emacs").

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