Re: 1.6.0 problems with libguilereadline-v-12 and fix

[Paul Jarc]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> But how about this: when linking one of Guile's own libraries,
>> temoporarily prepend (assq-ref %guile-build-info 'libdir) to
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH, whichever is searched first.
>> Would that satisfy everyone?
>
> I believe the problem is that if we start modifying either
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH (or the attendant libltdl
> functions), we won't just affect guile, we'll affect any app linked
> against libguile (if we perform the modification in libguile) or any
> other library we load that also uses libltdl or dlopen.

By "temporarily", I meant that the modification should be undone after
linking the library.  Would this problem still remain then?


paul