> I have the feeling that we should implement our own dynamic-link > function without libltdl. It would eliminate a dependency and allow us > to use other search path rules, like ones that could deal with this > case. I think the situation would actually be better on other > architectures because we wouldn't have to deal with bugs like this one:
Right now, the Guile project does a poor job of testing Guile on multiple platforms. Hydra does check that i686-linux, x86_64-linux and x86_64-darwin compile, but, that's about the extent of multi-platform testing. (There are Hydra jobs for Cygwin and Solaris, but, they are broken; and FreeBSD hasn't built successfully in a year or so on 2.0) Guile has some talented hackers, and maybe they could write a better dynamic linker than libtool, but, history suggests that Guile might lose interest in maintaining such code for non-GNU systems. -Mike
