guile-gnome-0(1)

💖 guile-gnome-0(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the guile-gnome-0 page, it's giving "tiny shell script, huge responsibilities" and honestly? iconic. 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

guile-gnome-0</purl> — starts guile and sets it all up so you can load guile-gnome modules 🦋

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

guile-gnome-0 [ guile options ]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this script has two jobs, and it does both. periodt.

1. it goes and finds guile in the load path instead of statically "linking" to /usr/bin/guile. no hardcoding, no commitment issues, we're flexible 💁
2. it sets up the guile load path and the library path so that using guile-gnome modules will Just Work. no cap.

and why do we need all this drama? because we might decide to break the application interfaces in the future 😭 so we gotta leave room for parallel installs. it's giving future-proofing, it's giving planning ahead, we love a queen who thinks about tomorrow. 👑

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🎀 the correct way to write a script that uses this 🎀

note bestie, this is the proper way to make a script that uses this as its interpreter. don't freestyle it.

#! /bin/sh
exec guile-gnome-0 -s $0 "$@"
!#

what this does is let the shell find guile-gnome-0 in the path 🫶 so cute, so simple, so effective.

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• GUILE_LOAD_PATH
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH — these two get extended (or set, if they're unset or empty) before we exec guile. so basically we top them up if they exist, and we create them from scratch if they don't. either way, they're ready before guile even shows up to the party 🍓

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• guile (1)

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kisses, and go forth and load those modules bestie 💖✨

this page is from the General Commands Manual, for guile-gnome-0, written by Andreas Rottmann. that's the whole vibe, slay, bye 👑🌈