clojure classpath problem for (require) function?

Question

CLASSPATH has the \"/Users/smcho/Desktop/clojure\" as one of its path, and this directory has the file hello.clj.

Running clojure, and running (require \'hello) give

Answer 1

You didn't specify what commandline you used for the first example, but note that if you use the -cp flag, the CLASSPATH environment variable is not referenced.