Re: Should we distribute libltdl?

[Neil Jerram]

Rob Browning wrote:
> Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Those two things would benefit when Guile explicitely declares as a
> > external dependency.  The Right Thing for a Guile OS package such as a
> > .deb or .rpm is not to contain libltdl but to depend on the package
> > that contains libltdl.
>
>
> For the record, now that we don't need customizations, I don't have
> any problem with dropping our copy of libltdl.  Alhough I agree that
> it would be good to have a clear configure error message when libltdl
> is not detected.

That's my view too.  Perhaps I'm spoilt by being a Debian user, but if 
other OS's don't have a decent package system, they really ought to sort 
that out.

        Neil