Re: FFI on OS X?

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 03 Mar 2011 17:53, Michael Ellis <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hans Aberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>> Why does this fail? �Can you strace it?
>>>
>>> If you tell me how. :-)
>>>
>> Apparently, on OS X, "dtruss" does fulfill the role of "strace":
>> <http://humberto.digi.com.br/blog/2008/02/25/strace-on-mac-os-x-leopard/>.
>
> For the record, here's some dtruss output  created when I try to
> dynamic-link a library that doesn't have a .so softlink, ie
> (dynamic-link "libf77lapack")

Aaahh yes I remember now.  It should have been looking for .dylib but
only wanted .so links, right?  I think this is a libltdl bug.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs/4483

There were a number of issues there, but I think the point about .dylib
getting added to the default suffix list on OS X got lost.

Andy
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