Re: dynamic-link problem

[Bill Gribble]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:53:56PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> address@hidden (Bill Gribble) writes:
> 
> > Still no luck with linking the actual library I'm trying to link.  Any
> > other suggestions?
> 
> Guile is using libltdl from libtool to implement its `dynamic-link'
> function.  libltdl has problems with error reporting: it tries a
> number of names for a library until one succeeds, regardless of the
> reason of failure.  When one try fails because of unresolved symbols,
> say, it just goes ahead and tries the remaining names, and ultimately
> fails with "file not found", which is wrong.
> 
> [I meant to fix this for quite some time now...]

OK, thanks.  At least I know it's not pointless to keep trying :) I
guess I just need to find the right LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Thanks,
Bill Gribble