Re: address@hidden: dynamic loading of native code modules]

[Andreas Rottmann]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I fully agree. However, I don't think manipulation of
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is even necessary, since one can compile the
> > directory (e.g. /usr/local/lib/guile1.7.0) into the guile
> > interpreter/shared lib.
> 
> You mean -rpath?  That might be a possibility, though it's (at least
> used to be) against Debian Policy -- there's usually a good reason,
> but I'd have to go check to be sure what the rationale was, and of
> course it might no longer apply...
> 
No, here we talk about extension .so files, don't we? These are loaded
via libltdl (which has ugly error messages, by the way) and thus one
can specify the directory to load the lib from.

Andy
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