From: Frank Webster <f.webster@yandex.com>
To: 21076@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21076: dynamic-link often fails to load libraries
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:52:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2096431437065554@web11m.yandex.ru> (raw)
On my Debian system, `dynamic-link' often fails to load shared
libraries:
Loading using a versioned soname never works:
scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "libGL.so.1")
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libGL.so.1", message: "file not found"
Loading without a library extension doesn't work unless the
corresponding *-dev package is installed:
scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "libGL")
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libGL", message: "file not found"
It is supposed to work with or without the extension, however because
of limitations in the underlying lt_dlopenext function in libtool,
neither works.
The first doesn't work because contrary to its
documentation, lt_dlopenext doesn't always try loading
the bare filename first, without appending an extention.
The second doesn't work because the versioned soname extension (.so.1)
isn't among the ones that lt_dlopenext tries to append. It does try the
unversioned extension (.so), but in Debian the unversioned symlink
is only available when the corresponding *-dev package is installed.
Here is a related libtool bug report: https://debbugs.gnu.org/8976
Note that there are arguably two distinct issues:
(1) lt_dlopenext not trying the bare filename in all cases
(2) lt_dlopenext not trying versioned soname extensions.
Obviously one way to address this would be to fix these two issues in
lt_dlopenext in libtool.
Alternatively, the (system foreign) module in guile could provide a
simple low-level wrapper around lt_dlopen, and possibly implement
the higher level functionality of `dynamic-link' (additional search
paths, guessing extensions etc.) in scheme.
next reply other threads:[~2015-07-16 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-16 16:52 Frank Webster [this message]
2015-07-16 23:00 ` bug#21076: dynamic-link often fails to load libraries Andreas Rottmann
2016-06-24 8:10 ` Andy Wingo
2019-06-08 12:29 ` Isaac Jurado
2019-06-08 12:37 ` Isaac Jurado
2020-03-21 23:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-20 23:36 ` bug#21076: dynamic-link Matt Wette
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