- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Disabling texmacs dirty hacks
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 20:13:37 +0200 (CEST)
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> After looking into this some more (I wish I hadn't!), it seems to me
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> that the use of 'locate' is restricted to some truly evil hacks by which
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> texmacs tries to find paths to the TeX and maxima installation.
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> I hope a more standard way to do this can be found. Or maybe for fink's
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> texmacs I should patch init_texmacs.cc and init_first.cc to get rid of
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> this stuff.
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In any case, I'd like if you can produce something which might be
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accepted in the distribution.
This stuff should really go into the scheme configuration files
for the plugins. If someone wants to do that, fine.
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I was recently out to fix the problems the insane guile-config hack is
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causing. Somehow, Joris feels compelled to use this kind of ugliness
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so I had to find a way to disable this optionnaly.
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I made the undesirable behaviour (guessing of the location of guile
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using various dirty tricks including using guile-config) optional on
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an environment variable (TEXMACS_GUESS_GUILE). This is useful to help
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user debugging their texmacs weirdnesses. The default behaviour (when
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this variable is not set to a meaningful value) is set by the
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--enable-guile-guessing configuration option, which defaults to "yes".
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This is useful to people who have a requirement not to use this insane
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hack (like packagers and people using guile-1.6.4).
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The end result is that the default behaviour is not modified (which
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pleases texmacs maintainer) but there are effective ways to disable
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the hack and even to re-enable it at runtime in case that could be of
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use.
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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.
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