From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: dsmich@roadrunner.com Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Replace ltdl with GLib's GModule Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:11:24 +0000 Message-ID: <72241d6990da52869a2de7230abd7810da263348@webmail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_9b1059380b1ada988ae0a1436d63f90f" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="15929"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "'guile-devel@gnu.org'" To: "'Duy Nguyen'" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 25 13:11:40 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jH4sl-00044I-L9 for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:11:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35464 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jH4sk-0000bf-Kf for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:11:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46148) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jH4sb-0000bW-0L for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jH4sZ-00068F-RI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:11:28 -0400 Original-Received: from p-impout008aa.msg.pkvw.co.charter.net ([47.43.26.139]:44632 helo=p-impout001.msg.pkvw.co.charter.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jH4sZ-00066Y-ML for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([34.233.51.36]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id H4sWjKuBkpbK1H4sWja7m6; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:11:25 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=S/SnP7kP c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=TrnfHZhGi+cGSPqA0dbxTQ==:117 a=TrnfHZhGi+cGSPqA0dbxTQ==:17 a=dSg6v7tjMxUA:10 a=F9t8C2e8FheU8sXcbagA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=CjxXgO3LAAAA:8 a=rvfvox0I59DltJvgLR4A:9 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 X-Mailer: Atmail X-Originating-IP: [65.185.85.154] X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfAAzXYBy3HHI9s8ycTCojXliY/Rhtrrl8kkVeGUvxwLxjm+sSoKzbi3R2ObpGqvXIXERpZSSuE40ywTfZbSBIqecMH5H2mvWj142+UBUE3crmzvBBB2M pQ3kEWK+LSWTB1UgyIG3tFUQJMBhFzVKmy48xGo5WYMA2WJs0Dw+FeztGqEI/PwteHa5pb9j59osswC07uzYarWmX3u9XGUMndkdjNVKeguR3mrLWcgr6HoD X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 47.43.26.139 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:20466 Archived-At: --=_9b1059380b1ada988ae0a1436d63f90f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > From: "Duy Nguyen" =0A=0A>=0A> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:24 AM Mike Gr= an wrote:=0A> >=0A > > In a fit of pique, I pushed a new branch of Guil= e to the repo=0A > > called wip-replace-ltdl-with-gmodule. It replaces t= he dynamic=0Alinking=0A > > library libltdl from libtool with the analag= ous library GModule=0A > > from GLib. It was remarkably easy, and, after= a cursory test=0A > > I was surprised to find that it seems to be worki= ng.=0A> =0A > So knee-jerk reaction, what does GModule do better than li= bltdl? Or=0A > perhaps why is libltdl "bad"?=0A=0AHopefully it will retu= rn something more detailed than "file not found"=0Afor the many error ca= ses that libtool lumps into that one error=0Amessage.=0A=0A-Dale=0A=0A --=_9b1059380b1ada988ae0a1436d63f90f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > From: "Duy Nguyen"
>
>= On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:24 AM Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> wrot= e:
> >
=0A> > In a fit of pique, I pushed a new branch= of Guile to the repo
=0A> > called wip-replace-ltdl-with-gmodu= le. It replaces the dynamic linking
=0A> > library libltdl fro= m libtool with the analagous library GModule
=0A> > from GLib.= It was remarkably easy, and, after a cursory test
=0A> > I wa= s surprised to find that it seems to be working.
>
=0A> So= knee-jerk reaction, what does GModule do better than libltdl? Or
=0A= > perhaps why is libltdl "bad"?
=0A
Hopefully it will return so= mething more detailed than "file not found" for the many error cases tha= t libtool lumps into that one error message.

-Dale

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