diff --git a/cyclone.scm b/cyclone.scm
index a11381a8..b68802e9 100644
--- a/cyclone.scm
+++ b/cyclone.scm
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
       (trace:info "imports:")
       (trace:info imports)
       ;; TODO: need to get basedir from env, this is just a placeholder
-      (set! imported-vars (lib:resolve-imports imports "examples/hello-library")) ;;"."))
+      (set! imported-vars (lib:resolve-imports imports "."))
       (trace:info "resolved imports:")
       (trace:info imported-vars)
 
diff --git a/trans.scm b/trans.scm
index 5d66c527..8e7e95fe 100644
--- a/trans.scm
+++ b/trans.scm
@@ -1807,6 +1807,13 @@
 (define (lib:import->obj-file import)
   (string-append (symbol->string (car (reverse import))) ".o"))
 
+
+; !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+;TODO: all this basedir stuff below is silly. all we need is a way of saying OK, this
+; is a system library so use cyc:get-lib-dir to find it. I think basedir just goes away
+; at that point
+
+
 ;; Given a program's import set, resolve each import to its .o file, then
 ;; process each import recursively to get the .o files that each one of those
 ;; libs requires. will probably need to prune duplicates from completed list.