gEDA-dev: RFC... PATCH: Alter system-gafrc to process .scm files in $GEDA_DATA_DIR/clib.d/

[Peter Clifton]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 22:51 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:17:26 Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
> > > In load-scheme-dir you don't check if scheme-dir is a directory, merely
> > > whether it exists.  What does (opendir scheme-dir) do if scheme-dir is,
> > > say, a device?
> >
> > I've added a directory check, and an (access? path R_OK) check to ensure
> > its readable. It still gives:
> >
> > "Probably parenthesis mismatch in /home/pcjc2/geda/share/gEDA/system-gafrc"
> >
> > if gafrc.d is readable, but not executable - however I wasn't sure if
> > adding X_OK was particularly portable.
> 
> That's a fairly pathological case.  Should that be as a comment in the 
> system-gafrc file?

It could be... but I'm not going to add it ;)

(Leave some debugging fun for whoever manages to munge their directory
permissions that badly - there would probably be more serious issues
they trip over first, assuming its not just that one dir which is
borked).

Peter