Re: [Texmacs-dev] Remote server

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:43:39PM +0200, Felix Breuer wrote:
> > The problem still surprises me, since *I* linked statically against Guile.
> > In principle, this should precisely avoid problems of the kind you noticed.
> > Could it be that TeXmacs somehow attempts to use the Guile which is
> > on your system? Is there some active $GUILE_LOAD_PATH?
> 
> There is no $GUILE_LOAD_PATH on any of the systems I tested on.
> 
> I am quite puzzled myself. All I can do is make a wild guess: the
> statically linked Guile tries to use the libc version on my system. My
> libc is compiled with TLS support and for some reason Guile cannot
> handle libc w/ TLS if it is statically linked. ./configure knows this
> and issues a warning, that it won't be able to link Guile statically
> (because I am running a libc w/ TLS).

But why would it use your libc? Isn't libc linked statically with the rest?

> Maybe your libc is compiled --without-tls? What platform are you working
> on?

Redhat 9.0. I never recompiled libc myself
(although I did compile my own version of gcc-2.95.3,
which continues being better than g++-4.1.*).