Re: 1.6.0 problems with libguilereadline-v-12 and fix

[Paul Jarc]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> By "temporarily", I meant that the modification should be undone
>> after linking the library.  Would this problem still remain then?
>
> Hmm, that's an interesting idea.  It might be shaky in the presence of
> threads, but I'm not sure that's something we're aiming to accomodate.
> It would also prevent users from controlling things via their normal
> envt, vars, but perhaps that's not critical either.

I don't think it would.  This modification would be done only when
linking one of Guile's own libraries, so it wouldn't affect searches
for other libraries, and it would be undone after the library was
linked in.

> Marius has suggested that perhaps the right thing to do is discuss
> this with the libltdl people and see if we can settle on a more
> general solution, one that might also involve a versioned lt_dlopen.
> I'm inclined in that direction as well.

Sounds good.  Making libltdl search the compile-time -rpath
directories would be a good general solution.


paul