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From: tomas@fabula.de
Cc: Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com>, rm@seid-online.de, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should we distribute libltdl?
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:49:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050309154951.GB14046@www> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lj3bv4svqg.fsf@troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>


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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:08:07PM +0100, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> rm@seid-online.de writes:
> 
> > Can't guile distribute libltdl but only use
> > it iff there's no local version found (or if the user states her
> > intention by configure magic)?
> 
> That is how it works right now.  I am not happy about the fact that
> Guile does this silently and that it is a configure decision that
> persists in the build tree.
> 
> What I would be happy with is to include a copy of libltdl in the
> Guile distribution but to have it completely ignored by configure and
> the Makefiles.  When libltdl is not found in the system, a message
> could be printed that instructs the user to install libltdl, maybe by
> using the included sources.

Makes the most sense to me too. This way a user can decide whether
to let her packaging system deal with it or not.

Installing silently libltdl can be a source of woes (even statically
linking it, since Guile can be linked to other apps which themselves
may use a slightly different version of libltdl: watch Apache and
expat coming in differently via different modules: hours of fun).

Regards -- and thanks for the great work again

-- tomás

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-08  1:09 Should we distribute libltdl? Marius Vollmer
2005-03-08  1:51 ` Bruce Korb
2005-03-08 16:53   ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-08 17:13     ` Bruce Korb
2005-03-08 17:41       ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-08 17:45       ` rm
2005-03-09 15:08         ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-09 15:49           ` tomas [this message]
2005-03-09 16:20           ` Rob Browning
2005-03-08 23:10       ` Greg Troxel
2005-03-08 15:41 ` Greg Troxel
2005-03-08 16:57   ` Marius Vollmer
2005-03-08 17:45     ` Rob Browning
2005-03-08 18:36       ` Neil Jerram
2005-03-09 15:08       ` Marius Vollmer

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