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* Re: Replace ltdl with GLib's GModule
@ 2020-03-25 12:11 dsmich
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From: dsmich @ 2020-03-25 12:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Duy Nguyen'; +Cc: 'guile-devel@gnu.org'

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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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* RE: Replace ltdl with GLib's GModule
@ 2020-03-25 14:58 dsmich
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From: dsmich @ 2020-03-25 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Mike Gran'; +Cc: 'guile-devel@gnu.org'

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Looks like (based on ldd output) that it depends on libglib,
libpthread, and libpcre beyond all that libltdl also uses.

-Dale



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