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Subject: Re: [PATCH]: gnu: Add guile-dbi.
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:14:35 +0200
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To: Maurizio Boriani <baux@gnu.org>
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Hi!

Maurizio Boriani <baux@gnu.org> skribis:

>   I'm the maintainer and first author of guile-dbi

Good to see you here!  :-)

>     >> Unfortunately, Guile DBI loads its backends using `dlopen', so I
>     >> have to set 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' to '$guile-dbd-sqlite/lib' for
>     >> loading it.
>
>     Ludovic> I don=E2=80=99t have any great ideas.
>
>     Ludovic> If it uses lt_dlopen, then we should recommend setting
>     Ludovic> LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH instead of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which is a
>     Ludovic> lesser evil.
>
>     Ludovic> Otherwise, we could also hard-code the file name of, say,
>     Ludovic> guile-dbd-sqlite in guile-dbi, such that there=E2=80=99s alw=
ays at
>     Ludovic> least one backend available.
>
> may be ok for you if I introduce and 'hardcoded' default search path
> for library lookup in guile-dbi source code and do a new release?=20

I don=E2=80=99t think there=E2=80=99s any good default search path that we =
could hard
code, though, except arbitrarily choosing one of the backends as I
suggested above.

Ideas?

So I=E2=80=99m tempted to think that it=E2=80=99s best for you not to chang=
e anything.

On the Guix side, another thing we could do is a =E2=80=98LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=
=E2=80=99 as
a =E2=80=98native-search-path=E2=80=99 for guile-dbi.

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.