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: Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing. Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:17:45 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <0208291417451J.19624@locke.free-expression.org> References: <87adn9plqf.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87hehdmu70.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87wuq9sdec.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> 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 1030648887 27756 127.0.0.1 (29 Aug 2002 19:21:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17kUr1-0007D2-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:21:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kUsP-00059F-00; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:22:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kUrQ-00052R-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kUrO-00052F-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from plounts.uits.indiana.edu ([129.79.1.73]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kUrN-00052B-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from stjoseph.uits.indiana.edu (stjoseph.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.78]) by plounts.uits.indiana.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1/IUPO) with ESMTP id g7TJLcqj021703 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:21:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from locke.free-expression.org (dial-122-46.dial.indiana.edu [156.56.122.46]) by stjoseph.uits.indiana.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1/IUPO) with SMTP id g7TJLc6I025848 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:21:38 -0500 (EST) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <87wuq9sdec.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 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:1198 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1198 On Thursday 29 August 2002 13:55, Marius Vollmer wrote: > Rob Browning writes: > > I think we'd hoped to wait until 1.7 development to try to come up > > with a more correct solution, but it *is* a little awkward to > > require people to set envt vars just to run guile when they're > > installing to /usr/local. > > Yes, one option would be to make libltdl parse /etc/ld.so.conf on > systems that have it. > > On the other hand, you have to set PATH already, why not also > LD_LIBRARY_PATH? It would be system wide, or session wide setting, > not a per-process setting. The problem is for people who muddle with several development projects at once. You might want to test development versions of both libfoo and the libfoo dependent appbar concurrently in /usr/local, but still want appbar to use the stable version of libfoo in /usr/lib because appbar has enough instability of its own. Lynn _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel