Re: (dynamic-link "libm") doesn't work on guile

[Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 06:36:14PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>> Hi people,
>> 
>> 
>> I got the following error message when trying to dlopen a shared library
>> in ~/guix-profile/bin/guile installed by guix:
>> 
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "libm")
>> ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
>> ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libm", message: "file not found"
>> 
>> Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
>> 
>> 
>> I think it is a guix-specific problem since /usr/bin/guile installed by
>> debian works fine:
>> 
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "libm")
>> $1 = #<dynamic-object "libm">
>> 
>> 
>> Any idea?
>
> Usually when a Debian package works while the Guix package fails, I
> examine the Debian packaging, especially the file at 'debian/rules'.
>
> You can find those on the package web page [0] as the [...]debian.tar.xz
> file and surely through some command-line tool.
>
> [0] Make sure to select your Debian release (Jessie, Stretch, etc):
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/guile-2.0

Thanks, but I think I am out of luck finding clues from the Debian
package. Btw, the source is also avaliable in
<https://sources.debian.net/src/guile-2.0/>, so no tarball downloading
is needed. Currently, the package page has no hyperlink pointing to it,
I think it should be added.

>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>