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From: dsmich@roadrunner.com
To: "'Duy Nguyen'" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "'guile-devel@gnu.org'" <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Replace ltdl with GLib's GModule
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:11:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72241d6990da52869a2de7230abd7810da263348@webmail> (raw)

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> From: "Duy Nguyen" 

>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:24 AM Mike Gran  wrote:
> >
 > > In a fit of pique, I pushed a new branch of Guile to the repo
 > > called wip-replace-ltdl-with-gmodule. It replaces the dynamic
linking
 > > library libltdl from libtool with the analagous library GModule
 > > from GLib. It was remarkably easy, and, after a cursory test
 > > I was surprised to find that it seems to be working.
> 
 > So knee-jerk reaction, what does GModule do better than libltdl? Or
 > perhaps why is libltdl "bad"?

Hopefully it will return something more detailed than "file not found"
for the many error cases that libtool lumps into that one error
message.

-Dale



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             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-25 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-25 12:11 dsmich [this message]
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2020-03-25 14:58 Replace ltdl with GLib's GModule dsmich
     [not found] <20200324222429.GA2587085.ref@spikycactus.com>
2020-03-24 22:24 ` Mike Gran
2020-03-25  9:33   ` Duy Nguyen
2020-03-25 12:41     ` Mike Gran
2020-03-27 12:01   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-27 13:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-27 17:03       ` Mike Gran

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