From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Subject: Re: cmod-play 1 available + modsup.h additions
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:29:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871xsbf2h4.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031114082656.GE14359@powergnu.laas.fr> ( Ludovic Courtès's message of "Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:26:58 +0100")
Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr> writes:
> Also, will this be part of Guile 1.6.x too?
In 1.6 and going forward, 'compiled modules' are done differently. A
'use-modules' statement, say, does not directly load a shared library.
Instead, it loads a small Scheme wrapper file that then in turn loads
the shared library via 'load-extension'. That way, modules can depend
on one another and load each other in the same way used for Scheme
code.
A second problem is that a shared library might depend on a shared
library that is not asssociated with a module. For example, the
module (gtk-1.2 gtk) loads libguile-gtk-1.2.so (via load-extension)
and libguile-gtk-1.2.so depends on libgtk.so which in turn depends on
libgdk.so, etc. The (gtk-1.2 gtk) module only loads
libguile-gtk-1.2.so and the remaining libs need to be loaded
automatically. This does indeed happen with libltdl (which is used by
Guile).
As far as I understand it, Thien's proposal does only solve the first
problem, that of modules depending on each other, but not the second
one, that of a shared library depending on another shared library that
is not used by/as a module.
The first problem does not exist in 1.6 since shared libraries are not
modules anylonger, the second one does not exist since libltdl handles
it already correctly.
( 1.6 still supports loading shared libraries as modules, but
deprecates it. )
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-13 21:55 cmod-play 1 available + modsup.h additions Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-14 8:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2003-11-14 13:10 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-14 13:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2003-11-14 17:38 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-14 14:29 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2003-11-14 14:17 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-14 15:28 ` Does anyone have a better scm_string_hash ? Roland Orre
2003-11-14 15:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2003-11-17 8:33 ` Roland Orre
2003-11-17 13:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2003-11-17 15:42 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-17 16:02 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-17 16:29 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-17 16:48 ` Allister MacLeod
2003-11-17 17:57 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-17 19:17 ` OT: x86 assembly timings/size (was Re: Does anyone have a better scm_string_hash ?) Allister MacLeod
2003-11-17 21:27 ` OT: x86 assembly timings/size Marius Vollmer
2003-11-19 9:04 ` Does anyone have a better scm_string_hash ? Ludovic Courtès
2003-11-19 15:02 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-14 17:40 ` cmod-play 1 available + modsup.h additions Thien-Thi Nguyen
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