On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:46 AM, David Christopher chrst...@gmail.com wrote:
I have edited my .profile file by adding this line to the very end.
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Documents
Now with that in there I can in terminal type echo $PATH and get this
return:
david@david-Aspire-XC-605G ~ $ echo $PATH
/home/david/Documents:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/david/Documents
Supposedly when I chmod to make the hello.scm practice file executable and
run from the terminal command line I should see the Hello World. As
opposed to on the command line typing guile hello.world.
When I type hello.scm in terminal command line, I get the following error.
---
david@david-Aspire-XC-605G ~ $ hello.scm
;;; Stat of /home/david/?s failed:
;;; ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory:
/home/david/\u2013s
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
157: 8 [catch #t #catch-closure 1f48400 ...]
In unknown file:
?: 7 [apply-smob/1 #catch-closure 1f48400]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
63: 6 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
432: 5 [eval # #]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2320: 4 [save-module-excursion #procedure 1f7ad00 at
ice-9/boot-9.scm:3961:3 ()]
3968: 3 [#procedure 1f7ad00 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3961:3 ()]
1645: 2 [%start-stack load-stack ...]
1650: 1 [#procedure 1f780f0 ()]
In unknown file:
?: 0 [primitive-load /home/david/\u2013s]
ERROR: In procedure primitive-load:
ERROR: In procedure open-file: No such file or directory:
/home/david/\u2013s
---
Now without that line in .profile, I get file not found
A friend told me I get te \u0213s from having a bad character in the
.profile file in that added line. Well, I have typed it in by hand several
times, copied an untouched .profile from my back up into the thing and
still get the error. Also tried creating the .bashrc and the
.pamenvironment file and I get the same error with those two files.
Anyone know why I get this No such file or directory: /home/david/\u2013s
??
It should say /home/david/Documents
I studied the Guile Reference Manual about %load and setting environmental
variables.
In guile load does not look in the path, it seems to only look in current
directory for the file to load. I did copy and paste the hello.scm in the
2.0 directory where the Manual says scm files should be. Then I entered
(load-from-path hello.scm) and that works fine.
Thanks for any help and especially looking a a newbee proplem.
David,
Might I suggest that our developer list is not the appropriate place to teach
you how to use Linux nor to program in Scheme? This list is not for newbies,
sorry.
As I told you before, the PATH environment variable is used by the shell to
find executable files. It is the matter of having the hello.world file
executable and beginning with #!/usr/bin/guile that allows you to type its name
directly from the command line; including your Documents directory in $PATH
just saves you from having to type out the path. Try that instead:
Documents/hello.world
and see if you get the same error.
Don't reply here, nor to me personally. Find resources appropriate to what you
need to learn. An adult-education class on Linux and/or beginning programming
would be an excellent option.
Regards,
John Ralls
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