Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A larger issue which might be good to contemplate is how .so files to
> be dlopened get located. Right now this seems to be a LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> thing, and I have an aversion to searching in larger numbers of places
> for things, since it loses when multiple versions are installed in
> different prefixes. As I've said on the guile list, when a program
> installed with --prefix=/usr/foo wants to link a library it installed,
> it can open /usr/foo/libexec/plugins/bar.so explicitly, rather than
> putting /usr/foo/libexec/plugins in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and opening
> bar.so. The downside to this is running before installation, and I
> don't have a good answer for how to do both.
Right now we're using rpath, which is similar to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but
localized to the binaries themselves.
Admittedly the whole gnc-module load mechanism is flawed. You can
thank the creators for that mess, but they are no longer active on the
GnuCash project, and we're stuck with their mess.
-derek
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