Re: About Guile crypto support

[Andy Wingo]

On Sat 09 Feb 2013 16:12, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> An issue with the FFI is distros where .la and .so files are only
> available in the -dev package, because then ‘dynamic-link’ won’t work
> unless that -dev package is installed (as recently discussed on
> guile-user.)

I have the feeling that we should implement our own dynamic-link
function without libltdl.  It would eliminate a dependency and allow us
to use other search path rules, like ones that could deal with this
case.  I think the situation would actually be better on other
architectures because we wouldn't have to deal with bugs like this one:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs/5269

Andy
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