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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

> > After looking into this some more (I wish I hadn't!), it seems to me
> > that the use of 'locate' is restricted to some truly evil hacks by which
> > texmacs tries to find paths to the TeX and maxima installation.
> >
> > I hope a more standard way to do this can be found. Or maybe for fink's
> > texmacs I should patch init_texmacs.cc and init_first.cc to get rid of
> > this stuff.
>
> In any case, I'd like if you can produce something which might be
> accepted in the distribution.

This stuff should really go into the scheme configuration files
for the plugins. If someone wants to do that, fine.

> I was recently out to fix the problems the insane guile-config hack is
> causing. Somehow, Joris feels compelled to use this kind of ugliness
> so I had to find a way to disable this optionnaly.
>
> I made the undesirable behaviour (guessing of the location of guile
> using various dirty tricks including using guile-config) optional on
> an environment variable (TEXMACS_GUESS_GUILE). This is useful to help
> user debugging their texmacs weirdnesses. The default behaviour (when
> this variable is not set to a meaningful value) is set by the
> --enable-guile-guessing configuration option, which defaults to "yes".
> This is useful to people who have a requirement not to use this insane
> hack (like packagers and people using guile-1.6.4).
>
> The end result is that the default behaviour is not modified (which
> pleases texmacs maintainer) but there are effective ways to disable
> the hack and even to re-enable it at runtime in case that could be of
> use.
>
> Hopefully, that modification will be merged for the next release.

Hopefully, someone will come with a patch which makes TeXmacs
works in a straightforward way with all guile distributions.