Re: guile-vm .go files in GUILE_LOAD_PATH

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

<address@hidden> writes:

> I'm pretty sure the case of not using the already installed system
> .scm files while building is handled now.  I'm thinking more along the
> lines of some user wanted to override a system file for some
> reason. This issue came up for me when I wanted to use a newer gnus
> than what came with the system supplied emacs.  At that time I didn't
> have admin privs so I just installed gnus somewhere under my home dir
> and made sure that the emacs load path searched there first.  Can this
> situation ever come up in Guile?  Maybe.

That can be handled by setting $GUILE_LOAD_PATH appropriately; even
`boot-9.scm' can be overridden this way (which `-L' and `%load-path' do
not allow).

Thanks,
Ludo'.