From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lynn Winebarger Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [d.love@dl.ac.uk: dynamic loading of native code modules] Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:26:19 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <0204291926190H.10649@locke.free-expression.org> References: <87sn5l55us.fsf@alice.rhinosaur.lan> <87sn5khlub.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020126640 13010 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2002 00:30:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:30:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 172LXU-0003Nj-00 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:30:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 172LX2-0006pk-00; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:30:12 -0400 Original-Received: from janus.hosting4u.net ([209.15.2.37]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 172LU4-0006b5-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 12157 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2002 00:27:09 -0000 Original-Received: from leo.hosting4u.net (HELO free-expression.org) (209.15.2.51) by mail-gate.hosting4u.net with SMTP; 30 Apr 2002 00:27:09 -0000 Original-Received: from locke.free-expression.org ([156.56.122.56]) by free-expression.org ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:26:52 -0500 Original-To: Rob Browning X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <87sn5khlub.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> X-Rcpt-To: Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:562 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:562 On Wednesday 24 April 2002 15:40, Rob Browning wrote: > Andreas Rottmann writes: > > > No, here we talk about extension .so files, don't we? These are > > loaded via libltdl (which has ugly error messages, by the way) and > > thus one can specify the directory to load the lib from. > > Current policy is that guile's extension libs are also to be > dynamically linkable directly into applications. This means that > lt_dlopen is not the only way they're loaded. Hence the need for > LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar. > This is an interesting policy. Is it documented somewhere? I take it the reason is because it's easier to develop the C libraries that way. Lynn _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel