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Re: Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing.


From: Lynn Winebarger
Subject: Re: Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing.
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:24:45 -0500

On Thursday 29 August 2002 14:17, Lynn Winebarger wrote:
> 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.
> 
      I forgot to mention: You also want the stable appbar that lives in /usr
to use the stable version of libfoo.

Lynn




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