Re: Guile 1.5.6 beta available for testing.

[Marius Vollmer]

Steve Tell <address@hidden> writes:

> As near as I can tell by wading through the libtool script and sh -x
> output, libtool adds "-L/usr/lib" because libguile.la says that libguile
> needs /usr/lib/libltdl.la, and /usr/lib/libltdl.a says that libltdl has
> its further dependendencies specified as "-ldl" (instead of as an absolute
> path to a libdl.la?)

Ahh, that makes sense.  That is, it explains what you are seeing, but
it certainly looks wrong.

> I'm temporarily joining the libtool list to see if any of the
> experts can shed some light.  It definitely looks like libtool is
> doing the wrong thing, or at least a less correct thing.

Yes, I'll listen in to the discussion on the libtool list...