Tobin Harding (2016-07-11 02:12 +0300) wrote:
> Guile does not appear to search %load-path when locating a file to load.
>
> From the documentation:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Load-Paths.html
Right, and this page mentions 'load-from-path' :-)
> 6.17.7 Load Paths
> ...
> Variable: %load-path List of directories which should be searched for Scheme
> modules and libraries.
> ...
>
> Current environment:
>
> $ guile --version
> guile (GNU Guile) 2.1.3.11-d545e-dirty
> Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux eros 4.6.1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 2 13:29:40 UTC 2016 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> $ ls ~/build/scheme
> boot-9.scm ggspec test.scm
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> %load-path
> $1 = ("/home/tobin/build/scheme/" ...)
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (load "test.scm")
> ;;; Stat of /home/tobin/test.scm failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory:
> "/home/tobin/test.scm"
> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load:
> ERROR: In procedure open-file: No such file or directory:
> "/home/tobin/test.scm"
>
> Is this something I am doing wrong?
You need to use the full file name for 'load'. I think you want
'load-from-path'.
--
Alex
