Re: Extension search path changed in 1.9

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Ludovic,

On Tue 23 Nov 2010 21:56, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> In 1.8, to run the test suite of libguile-foo from its build tree, I
> typically had a ‘pre-inst-guile’ like this:
>
> exec @abs_top_builddir@/libtool --mode=execute                        \
>        -dlopen "@abs_top_builddir@/src/libguile-foo.la"       \
>        @GUILE@ "$@"
>
> which amounts to “LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/src/.libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH” on
> GNU/Linux.
>
> However, this no longer works with 2.0: if libguile-foo.so is already
> present in SCM_EXTENSIONS_DIR, then it will be loaded instead of the one
> from the build tree.

This sounds like a bad change.  Should we append to the
LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable instead?  I guess that's what we
need to do with the libtools that are "out there".

WDYT?

Andy
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