Re: Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing.

[Lynn Winebarger]

On Thursday 29 August 2002 12:49, Rob Browning wrote:
> 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.

     This seems like it's a serious problem for any program that might
want to use multiple libraries that each use dynamic linking via
ltdl (and that could include guile itself using some such library).  
Someone with strictly positive clout should bring this up with libtool's 
authors (localizing search paths).  
   If environment variable override is a must, they should let the 
individual library choose the variable name,  or a prefix (like GUILE -> 
GUILE_LIBRARY_PATH) (or choose to go along with the global 
LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH).

Lynn