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 14:24:45 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <0208291424451K.19624@locke.free-expression.org> References: <87adn9plqf.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87wuq9sdec.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <0208291417451J.19624@locke.free-expression.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 1030649334 2477 127.0.0.1 (29 Aug 2002 19:28:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:28:54 +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 17kUyG-0000dP-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:28:49 +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 17kUzf-0005oe-00; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kUyC-0005ho-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kUyA-0005hZ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from julesburg.uits.indiana.edu ([129.79.1.75]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kUy9-0005hB-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:28:41 -0400 Original-Received: from stjoseph.uits.indiana.edu (stjoseph.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.78]) by julesburg.uits.indiana.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1/IUPO) with ESMTP id g7TJSdYG017291 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:28:39 -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 g7TJSc6I026177 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:28:39 -0500 (EST) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <0208291417451J.19624@locke.free-expression.org> 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:1199 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1199 On Thursday 29 August 2002 14:17, Lynn Winebarger wrote: > 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. > I forgot to mention: You also want the stable appbar that lives in /usr to use the stable version of libfoo. Lynn _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel