Re: debugging guile test failure and segfault.

[Greg Troxel]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Dan McMahill <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> With that I don't have to modify the guile-config output.  In other
>> words by default I might just get "-L/my/guile/path/lib" where I may
>> actually want "-L/my/guile/path/lib -Wl,-R/my/guile/path/lib".
>
> Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Probably you are right.  But not having a way to include some sort of
>> rpath when needed isn't portable either.
>
> Doesn't Libtool solve this problem?  That is, if you installed the
> Libtool archive `libguile.la' and link _using Libtool_ against it, then
> passing `-L/my/guile/path/lib' is enough and Libtool sets up the new
> library's RPATH correspondingly.
>
> Granted, you don't necessarily use Libtool, and the `.la' file could be
> unavailable, but that's another story...

Sure, but guile-config is documented to work for programs linking
without libtool.

I think guile should have a .pc file for pkg-config and guile-config
should be deprecated eventually.  That's really orthogonal.

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