Re: getting started with guile dev

[Andy Wingo]

On Wed 22 Jun 2016 06:38, Tobin Harding <address@hidden> writes:

> I am attempting to get started on some guile hacks. I am running Emacs, 
> Geiser,
> Guile (2.0.11) for Scheme development.
>
> I have cloned the git repository for Guile (current commit d545e45). I can 
> configure
> and build this tree. I can run the executable
>
> $ GUILE_TREE/libguile/guile --version
> guile (GNU Guile) 2.1.3.11-d545e-dirty
> Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Hi,

This is the development branch.  Probably if you are looking at building
on top of Guile you want to check out the stable-2.0 branch.

> My question is this, please, how to replace the system version with the fresh
> build.
>
> make install does not achieve this.
>
> Also I tried running
> $ GUILE_TREE/libguile/guile -L $GUILE_TREE/modules/
>
> but that does not seem to load the new modules.

To run Guile uninstalled, you run meta/guile from the build directory.

Cheers,

Andy