Matt Wette <[email protected]> writes:

> On 6/9/26 11:31 AM, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just set up a guile library for the kids manually, naturally
>> configuring with
>>
>>      ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local
>> Is there a good reason why we do not include the site dir and the
>> site-ccache dir in $HOME/.local in the %load-path and
>> %load-compiled-path by default (if they exist)?
>>
>
>  I didn't believe it at first but you are right.
> So, I tried, and %load-path ended up under /usr/share/guile.
> This seems messed up, IMO.
>
> Note that I usually build with --prefix=/opt/local and with that prefix
> the %load-path gets set correctly to /opt/local/share/guile.

Interesting, it does work for me.

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$ git show --no-patch
commit 1165ddafdc5ae6fef74c887588bbec12b2c292e6 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, 
origin/HEAD)
Author: Olivier Dion <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Jun 6 19:37:28 2026 -0400

    Fix srfi-235 tests srfi-64 test-suite
    
    * test-suite/tests/srfi-235.test: Migrate tests to use test-suite
    library instead of srfi-64.  Fix some tests that were not passing.
    
    Signed-off-by: Olivier Dion <[email protected]>
$ git clean -xffd
[..]
$ guix shell -CDf guix.scm -- ./autogen.sh
[..]
$ guix shell -CDf guix.scm -- ./configure --enable-mini-gmp 
--prefix=$HOME/.local
[..]
$ guix shell -CDf guix.scm -- make -j32
[..]
$ guix shell --share local=/home/u/.local -CDf guix.scm -- make install
[..]
$ guix shell --share local=/home/u/.local -CDf guix.scm -- local/bin/guile -c 
'(pk %load-path)'

;;; (("/home/u/.local/share/guile/3.0" "/home/u/.local/share/guile/site/3.0" 
"/home/u/.local/share/guile/site" "/home/u/.local/share/guile"))
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Albeit it is all done in a container, effectively it should be the same
as just installing it to home.  Any ideas what I am doing differently?

Tomas

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