Re: dynamic-link sadness

[Tim Van den Langenbergh]

On Tuesday, 23 February 2021 04:49:34 CET you wrote:
> Ok - I think that I am missing something important that will allow me to
> dynamically load libraries. :(
> Is this an environment variable or something?
>
> me@expensive:/usr$ find . -type f -name "libm\.*" -print
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so
> ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.a
> me@expensive:/usr$ guile
> GNU Guile 3.0.1
> Copyright (C) 1995-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
> This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.
>
> Enter `,help' for help.
> scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "libm")
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libm", message: "file not found"
>
> Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
> scheme@(guile-user) [1]> ,q
> scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so")
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> In procedure dynamic-link: file: "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so",
> message: "file not found"
>
> Entering a new prompt.  Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
> scheme@(guile-user) [1]> ,q

Hey Tim (feels weird typing that),

are you using Guile from your Guix install? I have had issues with that as
well and I needed to use Guile from my regular OS.

If you're not using Guix then I haven't had that problem, so I'm afraid I
can't help.

Vale,

-Tim Van den Langenbergh