Re: A little package proposal question

Fabian Boucsein <[email protected]> writes:

> Dear scsh users,
>
> i installed your package library on my computer
> with scsh version 0.6.6. I used the scsh layout
> and the directory /usr/local/share/scsh/.
> After that i put that path into the SCSH_LIB_DIRS
> variable.
> When i try to use an installed package as sunterlib
> i get the following error message:
> Error Illegal path element in SCSH_LIB_DIRS
> $SCSH_LIB_DIRS: /usr/local/share/scsh/
> The following element is not a string or #f: /usr/local/share/scsh/

I guess you simply set SCSH_LIB_DIRS to /usr/local/share/scsh/

However, the manual has this:

The value of this environment variable is treated as a sequence of
s-expressions, which are ``read'' from the string:

    *   A string is treated as a directory,
    *   #f is replaced with the default list of directories.

So your problem is that /usr/local/share/scsh/ is illegal as read
produces not a string but a symbol (there are no quotation
marks). Simply include them as in

setenv SCSH_LIB_DIRS '"/usr/local/share/scsh/"'

or

export SCSH_LIB_DIRS='"/usr/local/share/scsh/"

Note that you also have to include the scsh version in this path to
use the package library, i.e.  it should be something like
/usr/local/share/scsh/0.6


-- 
Martin