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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#39079: SBCL CFFI from Guix unable to find dynamic libraries
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:17:58 +0100
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To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
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Hi,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> That cannot work: this libcurl.so is linked against a different libc
>> (among other things) than the =E2=80=98sbcl=E2=80=99 program from Guix, =
so trying to
>> load it in a running Guix =E2=80=98sbcl=E2=80=99 is bound to fail.
>
> Are you sure?  I've done this many time before and it worked.

It might work to some extent if you=E2=80=99re lucky, but as a rule of thum=
b,
you should assume that it won=E2=80=99t.

>> What would work instead is loading Guix=E2=80=99 libcurl.so.  I suppose =
you
>> could do that by removing /usr/lib from =E2=80=98*foreign-library-direct=
ories*=E2=80=99.
>
> I think there is a misunderstanding :)
> The original question was specifically about loading a .so from the
> foreign distribution, so this would do it :p

My bad!  Well I guess my answer is: don=E2=80=99t even try that.  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.