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From: Tim Meehan <btmeehan@gmail.com>
To: Tim Van den Langenbergh <tmt_vdl@gmx.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dynamic-link sadness
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:18:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ABDEEB3C-3103-46A1-B18C-20292DAB04C4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E0432AB-3BDC-4094-A1F2-A4336D4D29A9@gmail.com>

(It is a bit weird writing to “Tim,” but my last job there were three “Tim”s ... even weirder)

I figured it out. The string argument on my system was the path to a symlink, the actual file was “/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.32.so” so it won’t follow symlinks to load libraries.

> On Feb 23, 2021, at 06:45, Tim Meehan <btmeehan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I should have said that it was Linux Mint Ulyssa, installed from “apt”. I have another system I can try it on later today.
> 
>>> On Feb 23, 2021, at 06:21, Tim Van den Langenbergh <tmt_vdl@gmx.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday, 23 February 2021 04:49:34 CET you wrote:
>>> Ok - I think that I am missing something important that will allow me to
>>> dynamically load libraries. :(
>>> Is this an environment variable or something?
>>> 
>>> me@expensive:/usr$ find . -type f -name "libm\.*" -print
>>> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so
>>> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.a
>>> me@expensive:/usr$ guile
>>> GNU Guile 3.0.1
>>> Copyright (C) 1995-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> 
>>> Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
>>> This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>>> under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.
>>> 
>>> Enter `,help' for help.
>>> scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "libm")
>>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>>> In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libm", message: "file not found"
>>> 
>>> Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
>>> scheme@(guile-user) [1]> ,q
>>> scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so")
>>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>>> In procedure dynamic-link: file: "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so",
>>> message: "file not found"
>>> 
>>> Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
>>> scheme@(guile-user) [1]> ,q
>> 
>> Hey Tim (feels weird typing that),
>> 
>> are you using Guile from your Guix install? I have had issues with that as
>> well and I needed to use Guile from my regular OS.
>> 
>> If you're not using Guix then I haven't had that problem, so I'm afraid I
>> can't help.
>> 
>> Vale,
>> 
>> -Tim Van den Langenbergh
>> 
>> 



      reply	other threads:[~2021-02-23 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-23  3:49 dynamic-link sadness Tim Meehan
2021-02-23 12:21 ` Tim Van den Langenbergh
2021-02-23 12:45   ` Tim Meehan
2021-02-23 14:18     ` Tim Meehan [this message]

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