Re: sys::lib-directory

[Bruno H. <ha...@il...>]

Sam writes:

> this solves only a part of the problem.
> 
> 1. I don't like the idea of a parameter which can be changed only at
>    start time.  users might have their own clhs.txt files, and as soon
>    as we let them, they will want to switch between them at will.

Aha! Why didn't you say earlier that you are thinking about clhs.txt?
If you want each user on a system to possibly have his own clhs.txt,
while using the same clisp binary in /usr/local, the fix is obviously
not to let the user override the entire lisplibdir; you add a function
'*clhs-index-pathname*' so the user can override it in his .clisprc file.

> 2. as long as lisp.run can be started without the driver, some people
>    will be doing that, and losing, and complaining.  if you insist that
>    this invocation method is inherrently deficient, it should be
>    immpossible to start lisp.run interactively

Making it impossible is too harsh; we need that possibility for debugging.
I added a warning.

> now you have /usr/local/lib/clisp/ *hardcoded* in lisp.run!

You misunderstood the warning message. /usr/local is only an example;
it's the default $(prefix). Please find and commit a better message.

Bruno