Re: GIT version: autocompiling startup file

[Hans Aberg]

On 27 Jan 2011, at 10:03, Andy Wingo wrote:

> > On Mac OS X, there are two locations for cached objects; when put  
> > there,
> > the system will assume they can be regenerated and not be  backed
> > up. These would be
> >  ~/Library/Caches/Guile/
> >  /Library/Caches/Guile/
> > if keeping to Mac tradition using uppercase names. One can also mark
> > ~/.cache/ to be the same kind of area.
>
> You can set your XDG_CACHE_HOME to change this.  See
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> for more.

This works. Put my .profile file
  export XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/Library/Caches/XDG
as to not clutter Caches/.

If Guile wants to set its own on Mac OS X, then it might be
  $HOME/Library/Caches/Guile