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From: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: guile-dbi: Use libltdl and prefer GUILE_DBD_PATH.
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:54:22 -0500
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Sorry for the very late reply.  I applied these patches to

https://github.com/opencog/guile-dbi

which will have to serve as the official repo for guile-dbi, since gna.org
is now dead.

Maurizio Boriani, I was surprised to see you answer -- do you have some
other repo somwhere that contains the guile-dbi code?

--linas



On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:36 PM, =E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6 <iyzsong@memb=
er.fsf.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> To reall, curentlly, guile-dbi use dlopen to load its backends.
> So, for Guix we have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which is not desired.
>
> > [...]
> > (me:)
> >> I think it will be great to introduce a new search path (eg:
> GUILE_DBD_PATH)
> >> in addition to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Find the absolute so filepath in it
> >> ourself, then pass to dlopen.
> >
> > (ludo:)
> > Why not, but then it would be redundant with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
> > LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH, which would further complicate the search rules.
> >
>
> Yeah, but I just learn that libltdl has a convenient function to do
> this..
>
>
> So, here are patches for using libltdl and a new search path:
>
>
>
> Hope they are obvious :-)
>
>