Re: Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing.

[Rob Browning]

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> On an additional note (as I'm testing Ralf's mod_guile), you
> have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for other applications using guile
> as well (in this case Apache), which is sometimes awkward.
>
> Is there another possibility to make libltdl work more
> reasonably? Are you taking patches? (oh, my goodness, for
> Guile 1.6.1+, of course ;-)


Well, there are some options wrt to libltdl, but most of them involve
modifying libltdl's search path (via its api, envt vars, etc.), but
then you have some fairly thorny questions about how that should be
done given the possibility that other shared libraries (or an app
guile's linked against) might be trying to do the same thing.

I think we'd hoped to wait until 1.7 development to try to come up
with a more correct solution, but it *is* a little awkward to require
people to set envt vars just to run guile when they're installing to
/usr/local.

-- 
Rob Browning
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