Re: Guile 1.5.8 beta available for testing.

[Marius Vollmer]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Yes, one option would be to make libltdl parse /etc/ld.so.conf on
systems that have it.

On the other hand, you have to set PATH already, why not also
LD_LIBRARY_PATH?  It would be system wide, or session wide setting,
not a per-process setting.

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