Re: [PATCH]: gnu: Add guile-dbi.

[Maurizio Boriani <baux@gnu.org>]

>>>>> "Ludovic" == Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

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

[...]

    >> 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’t 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’s always 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? 

thanks for your great work,

bye

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Maurizio Boriani 
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