No, guile didn't install unistring, I had to build that as well.

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 11:54 AM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Zyle Moore <[email protected]> writes:
>
> That's great you got it working.
>
> > 1. Add "/usr/local/lib" to a new file in
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr-local.conf.
>
> This is in my view an Ubuntu bug for not allowing the normal RPATH
> mechanism, and given that they don't, that it wasn't documented well
> enough that you noticed :-) But apparently adding /usr/local/lib to the
> ld.so.conf is the plan.  I wonder what the docs said about how files in
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d are ordered, both among themselves, and relative to
> the built-in search path, but that's not about guile.
>
> > After doing this, running `ldconfig` resulted in this error
> > /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/local/lib/libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1-gdb.scm is not
> an
> > ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
> >
> > 2. Remove libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1-gdb.scm from /usr/local/lib
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is Ubuntu special sauce, or if this file is ending
> up
> > there incorrectly, but it really wants everything in all ld folders to be
> > only ELF files. After doing these two steps after `sudo make install`,
> > guile seems to be working now.
>
> guile script that is helpful for running guile under gdb.  Read it!
>
> I don't think there are any rules in the larger POSIX ecosystem about
> not having files that aren't ELF libs in $prefix/lib.    I see this as a
> self-inflicted wound by Ubuntu's ld.so.conf decision;  normally a file
> in $prefix/lib is only even opened if there is a NEEDED/RPATH
> combination that references it.
>
> It may be that having .so in it somwehere is the issue.  There are
> non-ELF files in lib mnormally.  FWIW on my system:
>
>   $ ls -l /usr/pkg/guile/3.0/lib/
>   total 4120
>   drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel      512 Dec  6  2022 guile
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2657138 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.a
>   -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     1063 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.la
>   lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       21 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.so ->
> libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1
>   lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       21 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.so.1 ->
> libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1
>   -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1486880 Apr 26 05:46 libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    17469 Apr 26 05:46
> libguile-3.0.so.1.7.1-gdb.scm
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 Apr 26 05:47 pkgconfig
>
>
> > Below is the output of ldd and objdump for context
> > ldd:
> > zymus@abyss:~/src/guile-3.0.11$ ldd /usr/local/bin/guile
> > linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc61064000)
> > libguile-3.0.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libguile-3.0.so.1
> (0x00007aecfc4e7000)
> > libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007aecfc200000)
> > libgc.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgc.so.1 (0x00007aecfc472000)
> > libffi.so.8 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.8 (0x00007aecfc465000)
> > libunistring.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libunistring.so.5
> (0x00007aecfc017000)
> > libgmp.so.10 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007aecfbf95000)
> > libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007aecfc429000)
> > libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007aecfbeae000)
> > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007aecfc64a000)
> >
> > objdump:
> > zymus@abyss:~/src/guile-3.0.11$ objdump -x /usr/local/bin/guile | egrep
> > NEEDED\|RPATH
> >   NEEDED               libguile-3.0.so.1
> >   NEEDED               libc.so.6
>
> So missing RPATH as you already determined, but otherwise looks fine to
> me.
>
> Did guile insttall unistring, or did you have to build that too?
>

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