Re: debugging guile test failure and segfault.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Dan McMahill <address@hidden> writes:

>>> I'm also working on getting this going on Solaris-2.9/sparc but am not
>>> quite to the testsuite part.  I have a few bug fix patches there
>>> too. Once I get my various problems worked out, I'll submit a more
>>> cleaned up set of patches.
>
> see the attached file for most of my patches.

[...]

> --- guile-config/guile-config.in.orig   2006-09-20 00:19:02.000000000 +0000
> +++ guile-config/guile-config.in
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
>                 (if (or (string=? libdir "/usr/lib")
>                         (string=? libdir "/usr/lib/"))
>                    ""
> -                  (string-append "-L" (get-build-info 'libdir)))
> +                  (string-append "-Wl,-R" (get-build-info 'libdir) "
> -L" (get-build-info 'libdir)))
>                (string-join other-flags)
>
>                )))

Can you explain why this is needed?  `guile-config' is only used by
applications that link against Guile.  Did you have troubles compiling
such applications?

Besides, `-Wl,-R' can probably not be considered portable.

Thanks,
Ludovic.