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| author | Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> | 2001-11-07 02:55:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> | 2001-11-07 02:55:05 +0000 |
| commit | 3989f08206a8f4860f9513d77c6efc36aa2fa166 (patch) | |
| tree | 97e78e885f10fbd5890da63cae25c348c64417a8 /BUGS | |
| parent | 70debc22969e0b2a51bfaa419c2b373d0addbbf1 (diff) | |
| download | guile-3989f08206a8f4860f9513d77c6efc36aa2fa166.tar.gz | |
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@@ -207,4 +207,30 @@ crash still occurs w/ "guile -s bug.scm" (cvs checkout on 2001/11/06). however, "guile -l bug.scm" works as expected. +bug 10 -- embedded libltdl masks system version unconditionally +reported-by: grib@linuxdevel.com / 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] |