guile/guile-core BUGS

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

CVSROOT:        /cvs
Module name:    guile
Branch:         branch_release-1-6
Changes by:     Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden>       01/11/06 21:56:20

Modified files:
        guile-core     : BUGS 

Log message:
        (10): New.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/guile/guile-core/BUGS.diff?cvsroot=OldCVS&only_with_tag=branch_release-1-6&tr1=1.1.2.8&tr2=1.1.2.9&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: guile/guile-core/BUGS
diff -u guile/guile-core/BUGS:1.8 guile/guile-core/BUGS:1.9
--- guile/guile-core/BUGS:1.8   Tue Nov  6 19:37:39 2001
+++ guile/guile-core/BUGS       Tue Nov  6 21:55:05 2001
@@ -207,4 +207,30 @@
 however, "guile -l bug.scm" works as expected.
 
 
+bug 10 -- embedded libltdl masks system version unconditionally
+reported-by: address@hidden / 2001-11-04
+fixed: not-yet
+
+Bill Gribble sez:
+> The guideline for when to use the convenience version of libltdl is
+> this:
+>
+> > In general you can safely use the convenience library in
+> > programs which don't depend on other libraries that might
+> > use libltdl too.
+>
+> So guile's use of the convenience library embodies an assumption about
+> programs which use guile: that they will not use libltdl except through
+> guile's wrapper (dynamic-link and friends).
+>
+> It seems like this is a bad assumption for guile to make, since it is
+> intended to be used as an extension language for many different kinds of
+> programs and not to put a priori restrictions on what they can do.
+> Especially when those restrictions are not documented.
+>
+> I would suggest that prior to the guile-1.6 release the use of the
+> convenience ltdl library be removed, instead depending on an installed
+> version of libltdl.
+
+
 [BUGS ends here]