Re: load_extension tests broken

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey,

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> I just debugged myself silly to find a problem in the new GC as it was
> running the test suite.  As it turns out, the test suite is loading
> extension modules (i18n.so to be precise) from the path I supplied
> in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Since this was an old version, this failed in
> mysterious ways.
>
> Could someone modify the pre-inst-guile to make sure it always tries
> to load locally compiled modules first?

I don't think there's any such problem, at least on GNU/Linux.  See:

  $ ./pre-inst-guile
  guile> (getenv "LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH")
  
"/home/ludo/src/guile/libguile:/home/ludo/src/guile/guile-readline:/home/ludo/src/guile/srfi:"

The first directory is the build directory.

Just to make sure, I also ran `pre-inst-guile', typed
"(use-modules (ice-9 i18n))" and attached GDB to it: it shows that the
right `libguile-i18n' is loaded.

If in doubt, can you try similar things on your machine?

Thanks,
Ludovic.