Re: Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing.

[Lynn Winebarger]

On Thursday 29 August 2002 13:55, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
> > I think we'd hoped to wait until 1.7 development to try to come up
> > with a more correct solution, but it *is* a little awkward to
> > require people to set envt vars just to run guile when they're
> > installing to /usr/local.
> 
> Yes, one option would be to make libltdl parse /etc/ld.so.conf on
> systems that have it.
> 
> On the other hand, you have to set PATH already, why not also
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH?  It would be system wide, or session wide setting,
> not a per-process setting.

     The problem is for people who muddle with several development projects
at once.  You might want to test development versions of both libfoo and the
libfoo dependent appbar concurrently in /usr/local, but still want appbar to 
use the stable version of libfoo in /usr/lib because appbar has enough 
instability 
of its own.

Lynn