bug#23943: Guile loads "init.scm" from the current directory

[Andy Wingo]

On Mon 11 Jul 2016 09:44, Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:

> cd /tmp
> echo foo > init.scm
> GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH= GUILE_LOAD_PATH= guile -q
>
> And it fails with this error:
>
>   guile: uncaught throw to unbound-variable: (#f Unbound variable: ~S (foo) 
> #f)
>   Cannot exit gracefully when init is in progress; aborting.
>   Aborted (core dumped)
>
> I'm not sure I understand it right from the commentary in "init.c"[1],
> but I think this behavior is not intended, or is it?
>
> [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/libguile/init.c#n238

Your invocation does not unset GUILE_LOAD_PATH and
GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH, but rather *sets* them to contain only one
element, the current directory.  Use "unset" or similar to unset these
variables.

Andy