Re: Guile 2.0.6 - some tests fail

2012-10-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Jan Synacek jsyna...@redhat.com writes: when I run 'make check', some guile tests fail and I'm not sure why [1, 2]. [1] http://jsynacek.fedorapeople.org/guile/check-guile.log [2] http://jsynacek.fedorapeople.org/guile/check-guile-fails.log (only FAILs) Quoting from [2] (but rearranging the

Re: [PATCH] Don't augment LD_LIBRARY_PATH (was Re: [PATCH] do not augment environment)

2012-10-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
I wrote: I've read the message referenced above several times, but I've failed to understand why we cannot use 'lt_dladdsearchdir' to augment the path, as shown in the first code excerpt of that message: env = getenv (GUILE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_PATH); [...] if (env)

Re: [PATCH] Don't augment LD_LIBRARY_PATH (was Re: [PATCH] do not augment environment)

2012-10-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: Following Bruce's suggestion, it causes 'sysdep_dynl_link' to manually search additional directories if 'lt_dlopenext' fails to find the library in the default paths.

Re: [PATCH] Don't augment LD_LIBRARY_PATH (was Re: [PATCH] do not augment environment)

2012-10-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: As I understand it, the reason given for why we cannot use that approach is that 'libtool --mode=execute -dlopen' would not work properly, Exactly. but why do we have to do it that way? It is a fact that some