> On Mar 12, 2015, at 2:57 AM, David Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > How do I change the path the guile looks for my .scm files. Rigjht now it > looks in /home/david but I put my dinky little "newbee" files in > /home/david/Documents. > > I tried "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Documents" and "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/david/Documents" > from the terminal while in /home/david . > > That does not work from the terminal or within in guile. > > I do not understand instructions given to me to edit /home/david/.profile
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Environment-Variables.html describes the environment variables Guile looks at. $PATH is used by the shell (as in bash) to find executables which are named without specifying a path. E.g., a command "gcc" will make the shell search $PATH for the first executable file named "gcc" while "/usr/local/bin/gcc" will try to execute that file and that file only. As you'll see from Environment-Variables.html, Guile doesn't use $PATH. Read bash(1) (which means to run the command `man bash` and read the resulting manual page) to learn about .profile and other shell-configuration files. Since you're apparently new to Unix/Linux you might want to get a basic Unix book. The "for Dummies" series is generally pretty good in spite of the demeaning titles. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
