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[David Allouche <address@hidden>]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:13:38AM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> 
> I am willing to try suppressing the guile-guessing for a while and
> see whether we get any complaints.

Glad to read this.

> However, we do need a way to check whether guile has been well
> installed on the system. I may look whether 'guile' is in the path,
> but I am not sure that this is sufficient.

There is not point in such an exercise.

"guile is well installed" is equivalent to:

  A. the version of libguile with which texmacs is linked is available.

  B. libguile it can find its associated stuff.

If A is not true, then texmacs will not even load because the run-time
link will fail. We might supply a dummy software linked with guile
just to test this condition and provide an error message from the
startup script. But it is probably not even worth the trouble because:

  -- if the user has installed texmacs from source, then the
     configuration and build would only succeed if guile is installed.

  -- if the user has installed texmacs from its distribution, the
     package dependences ensure that everything needed is here

  -- if the user has installed texmacs from the static rpm, then
     everything is included.

If A is true and not B, then see my previous post: the administrator
is at fault.

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                                                            -- ddaa