Shouldn't libguilereadline, libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14 etc. be versioned?

[Matthias Koeppe]

Currently, Guile's auxiliary libraries libguilereadline,
libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14, etc. all have library version 0.0.0, and
they are loaded with DYNAMIC-LINK using the short name
(libguilereadline.so).  This makes it hard to install multiple Guile
versions on one host.

I'd suggest to attach libguile's library versions (currently, 10.0.0)
to the auxiliary libraries as well and to use %guile-build-info to get
the right version number when loading the libraries, like the patch
included below illustrates.

Index: guile-readline/readline.scm
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/guile/guile-core/guile-readline/readline.scm,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 readline.scm
--- guile-readline/readline.scm 2001/04/10 23:48:27     1.13
+++ guile-readline/readline.scm 2001/06/05 08:33:54
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@
 ;;; but only when it isn't already present.
 
 (if (not (feature? 'readline))
-    (dynamic-call "scm_init_readline" (dynamic-link "libguilereadline.so")))
+    (dynamic-call "scm_init_readline" (dynamic-link 
+                                      (string-append "libguilereadline.so."
+                                                     (cdr (assq 
'libguileversion %guile-build-info))))))
 
 (if (not (feature? 'readline))
     (scm-error 'misc-error

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Matthias Köppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe