[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Problems making & installing Guile 1.4
From: |
Byron Hale |
Subject: |
Re: Problems making & installing Guile 1.4 |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:11:17 -0700 |
At 05:40 PM 4/17/2002 +0200, you wrote:
...
The usual thing to do is to have /usr/local/bin *before* /usr/bin
in your $PATH (you set that in your $HOME/.bash_profile; for a
global setting, i.e. for all users, you'd edit /etc/profile).
This way, things you install under /usr/local take precedence
over things pre-installed in /usr, which is usually what you
want. Your mileage might vary, of course.
For root it's different. There, security considerations are
more important than ease of use.
Actually, my own, non-root, account has the ordering that you mentioned.
I'm afraid to tinker with root's path ordering, so I'm leaving it as is.
Apparently I installed Guile 1.3 in January or February as a general good
idea and renaming 1.3 hasn't hurt me so far. Using Guile as a shell,
given that it will be made more consistent and not so dependent on
whitespace placement, etc., seems an excellent idea to me.
I studied SICP using Scheme and miss its continuations in SML97 and
Haskell98. I'll be following this list with interest now.
> At any rate, Guile 1.4 is up and running. Thanks!
Good news, then!
Regards
-- tomas
Byron