Re: Feature request: make Guile compiler always write absolute paths in .go files for Geiser compatiblity

[Maxime Devos]

Op 25-09-2023 om 11:36 schreef Vili Aapro:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:26:31 +0200
> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a very bad idea.  The absolute file name would be somewhere
> > in the build directory, which very likely doesn't exist anymore on a
> > typical installation.
>
> Yes, you are right.
>
> > I suppose that whatever code
> > is responsible for loading .go/.scm can be adjusted to add a prefix
> > turning it in an absolute file name.
>
> Yes, this must be the way. The loader should do the job.
>
> >   > One wrong way to find out the absolute path would be to go through
> >   > %load-path, but the semantics of that would break under mutation.
> > Can you elaborate?
>
> I was just thinking of a dirty fix on the Emacs side of things, to search for 
> the module through %load-path, that that would break when %load-path was 
> mutated.

Can you elaborate on that -- i.e., how would mutating %load-path break 
things?  Perhaps you mean that if %load-path is changed after the module 
is loaded, then the source file that was found (after changing 
%load-path) might not be the the actual source file?

I don't think it's much of a concern in practice, but I suppose it's 
worth addressing somehow.

Best regards,
Maxime Devos.

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