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Re: ice-9/boot.scm name
- To: Bill Schottstaedt <bil at ccrma dot stanford dot edu>
- Subject: Re: ice-9/boot.scm name
- From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
- Date: 25 Jul 2000 16:11:47 +0200
- Cc: GUILE at SOURCEWARE dot CYGNUS dot COM
- Cc: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
- References: <200007251330.GAA05301@cmn14.stanford.edu>
- Reply-To: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.stanford.edu> writes:
> Over the years, I've gotten about 300 messages that Snd
> (a sound editor that uses guile) dies at start-up with
> something like:
>
> > ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> > ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>
> And every time I dutifully respond with something about
> Guile. Wouldn't it be better to include in this message
> the fact that it is Guile that is generating the error,
> and even better, which version of this file it is looking
> for (i.e. "Unable to find guile-1.4/ice-9/boot.scm" or
> "ice-9/guile-1.4-boot.scm")?
This is a good idea. We could use %search-load-path to locate the
file first and generate a more informative error if it isn't found.
/mdj