Re: [Bug-apl] Failure to load native libraries causes incorrect error message

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Elias,

yes, please send the patch.

/// Jürgen


On 04/06/2014 06:12 PM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
> The current mechanism to load native libraries first attempts to find 
> a library with the suffix .so. If that fails, it will try again with 
> the suffix .dylib (the OSX library extension).
>
> This poses a problem, since if the .so library failed for any reason 
> other than the file not existing, the error message in )MORE will be: 
> "filename.dylib: file not found".
>
> Since the dlopen facility does not provide a machine-readable way of 
> interpreting hat the error was (missing file, or failure to 
> initialise?) may I suggest we first identify which file exists and 
> then perform a single dlopen on that file.
>
> I can do it and send patches if you want.
>
> Regards,
> Elias