Re: Mac OS X .dylib

[Hans Aberg <haberg@math.su.se>]

On 30 Jan 2010, at 20:30, Andy Wingo wrote:

>> It seems guile-1.8.7 does not admit dynamic library file name  
>> extensions
>> .dylib, but only .so, on Mac OS X (tried 10.5.8. PPC G4)
>
> I think your example shold work, but it's something that's totally
> handled by libltdl. Are you using the latest libltdl?

I have now update to latest
   libtool --version
   ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b
and the README says that libltdl should be a part of it; however, I  
just made an install of the libtools package. I also re-unpacked  
guile-1.8.7, and './configure && make && make install'.

There is no change: .dylib fails; .so works.

> Note also that libltdl's error messages often aren't the most
> appropriate, due to another bug:
>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/10621
>
> This (often) makes all failures come out as "file not found".

Since it works if I change to .so, it seems to only be that file name  
problem.

> So try using a newer libltdl, and if that fails, bug-libtool@gnu.org  
> is
> probably the place to go.

Ah - list chasing. :-)

   Hans