@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011
+@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2013
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
variable. Paths added here are @emph{not} in effect during execution of
the user's @file{.guile} file.
+@item -C @var{directory}
+Like @option{-L}, but adjusts the load path for @emph{compiled} files.
+
@item -x @var{extension}
Add @var{extension} to the front of Guile's load extension list
-(@pxref{Loading, @code{%load-extensions}}). The specified extensions
+(@pxref{Load Paths, @code{%load-extensions}}). The specified extensions
are tried in the order given on the command line, and before the default
load extensions. Extensions added here are @emph{not} in effect during
execution of the user's @file{.guile} file.
Do not use the debugging VM engine, even when entering an interactive
session.
+Note that, despite the name, Guile running with @option{--no-debug}
+@emph{does} support the usual debugging facilities, such as printing a
+detailed backtrace upon error. The only difference with
+@option{--debug} is lack of support for VM hooks and the facilities that
+build upon it (see above).
+
@item -q
@cindex init file, not loading
@cindex @file{.guile} file, not loading
You can specify a different history file by setting this environment
variable. By default, the history file is @file{$HOME/.guile_history}.
+@item GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE
+@vindex GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE
+This is a flag that can be used to tell Guile whether or not to install
+the current locale at startup, via a call to @code{(setlocale LC_ALL
+"")}. @xref{Locales}, for more information on locales.
+
+You may explicitly indicate that you do not want to install
+the locale by setting @env{GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE} to @code{0}, or
+explicitly enable it by setting the variable to @code{1}.
+
+Usually, installing the current locale is the right thing to do. It
+allows Guile to correctly parse and print strings with non-ASCII
+characters. Therefore, this option is on by default.
+
+@item GUILE_STACK_SIZE
+@vindex GUILE_STACK_SIZE
+Guile currently has a limited stack size for Scheme computations.
+Attempting to call too many nested functions will signal an error. This
+is good to detect infinite recursion, but sometimes the limit is reached
+for normal computations. This environment variable, if set to a
+positive integer, specifies the number of Scheme value slots to allocate
+for the stack.
+
+In the future we will implement stacks that can grow and shrink, but for
+now this hack will have to do.
+
@item GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH
@vindex GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH
This variable may be used to augment the path that is searched for
compiled Scheme files (@file{.go} files) when loading. Its value should
-be a colon-separated list of directories, which will be prefixed to the
-value of the default search path stored in @code{%load-compiled-path}.
+be a colon-separated list of directories. If it contains the special
+path component @code{...} (ellipsis), then the default path is put in
+place of the ellipsis, otherwise the default path is placed at the end.
+The result is stored in @code{%load-compiled-path} (@pxref{Load Paths}).
Here is an example using the Bash shell that adds the current directory,
@file{.}, and the relative directory @file{../my-library} to
@vindex GUILE_LOAD_PATH
This variable may be used to augment the path that is searched for
Scheme files when loading. Its value should be a colon-separated list
-of directories, which will be prefixed to the value of the default
-search path stored in @code{%load-path}.
+of directories. If it contains the special path component @code{...}
+(ellipsis), then the default path is put in place of the ellipsis,
+otherwise the default path is placed at the end. The result is stored
+in @code{%load-path} (@pxref{Load Paths}).
-Here is an example using the Bash shell that adds the current directory
-and the parent of the current directory to @code{%load-path}:
+Here is an example using the Bash shell that prepends the current
+directory to @code{%load-path}, and adds the relative directory
+@file{../srfi} to the end:
@example
-$ env GUILE_LOAD_PATH=".:.." \
+$ env GUILE_LOAD_PATH=".:...:../srfi" \
guile -c '(display %load-path) (newline)'
-(. .. /usr/local/share/guile/2.0 \
+(. /usr/local/share/guile/2.0 \
/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0 \
-/usr/local/share/guile/site /usr/local/share/guile)
+/usr/local/share/guile/site \
+/usr/local/share/guile \
+../srfi)
@end example
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