Re: my load path bug

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Ken,

Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:

> Andy's patch (eb35012) adds $pkglibdir to the path searched for
> libraries.  That directory is $prefix/lib/guile; it contains a
> subdirectory "1.9" and nothing else.  The libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-4.*
> libraries guile searches for at startup are in $prefix/lib aka
> $libdir.
>
> Changing SCM_LIB_DIR to be defined as $libdir instead of $pkglibdir is
> easy enough, if the current location is where we want those
> libraries.

Yes, I think that’s the way to go, since libguile-srfi-*,
libguilereadline*, etc. get installed to $(libdir), not $(pkglibdir).

If nobody objects, please commit it.

> Do we need programs to be able to link against them directly?

Yes since people may be explicitly linking against them (they’ve always
been under $(libdir)).

> Do we need non-guile programs to be able to find them with dlopen?

Yes.

> (Is it too late to consider changing it?)

Yes.

Thanks,
Ludo’.