From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
To: Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-devel Development <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why is Guile now setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:59:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rmia9wxnwuv.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504E80EE.5070408@gnu.org> (Bruce Korb's message of "Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:08:14 -0700")
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Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> writes:
> On 09/10/12 16:48, Bruce Korb wrote:
>>> $ guile --version
>>> guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.5
>>> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> I added a couple of debug printf's after several hours chasing down
>> why my program was crashing:
>>
>>> in main() LD_LIBRARY_PATH='EMPTY'
>>> in inner_main() LD_LIBRARY_PATH='/usr/lib64:/usr/lib64/guile/2.0/extensions'
>>
>> It was crashing because it was linking against a library in /usr/lib64
>> instead of /usr/local/lib64. Now I know why.
>>
>> 1. Why was this done?
>> 2. Why no notice? This is *BROKEN*.
>>
>> libguile needs to be linked with -Wl,-rpath
>> -Wl,/usr/lib64/guile/2.0/extensions
>> instead of messing up your client's link/load. ("/usr/lib64" should
>> not be needed.)
>>
>> Distribution: openSuSE 12.2 (Just in case they are not following your
>> build procedures and I need to harass them.)
>
>
> P.S. the fix seems to be this, though, naturally, I hate it.
>
> static void
> inner_main(void * closure, int argc, char ** argv)
> {
> atexit(done_check);
> initialize(argc, argv);
>
> {
> char const * p = getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH");
> if (p != NULL)
> putenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH=");
> }
I don't follow why you think this is the right fix. It seems that guile
(main) and libguile (library) should both not set LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
all.
Also, lib64 is a linuxism; BSDs have the architecture's libs in /usr/lib
and alternate ones in e.g /emul/netbsd32 (such as i386 libs on amd64
machines). So setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH has to be done in an os and
arch-dependent way, which is complicated.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-11 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-10 23:48 Why is Guile now setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Bruce Korb
2012-09-11 0:08 ` Bruce Korb
2012-09-11 1:59 ` Greg Troxel [this message]
2012-09-11 13:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
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2012-09-11 16:21 Bruce Korb
2012-09-13 23:30 ` Bruce Korb
2012-09-14 18:06 ` Mark H Weaver
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