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Re: Extension search path changed in 1.9
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Extension search path changed in 1.9 |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:01:02 +0100 |
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Hi Andy,
Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> 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?
Yes, let’s do that. Sounds hackish but it would work.
> I guess that's what we need to do with the libtools that are "out
> there".
The libtool invocations you mean?
Thanks,
Ludo’.