Search path for C libraries

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:

> Perhaps dynamic-link should look in guilelibdir _only_ if an absolute
> path is not given, or a primitive that does this.  One important
> feature is that inclusion, dynamic link, etc. should be able to ensure
> it gets exactly what was searched for and tested at configure time.

Right.  This is one of the concerns that was raised by Vorfeed Canal
earlier I think.

Maybe the right way to do this would in fact to have module developers
generate the `dynamic-link' code at configure-time (using Autoconf
substitution) in order to hard-wire the library path.  Unfortunately,
this isn't very elegant and it precludes, for instance, running the
module's test suite before installing it (because `dynamic-link' would
either fail or load the wrong library).

This is why extending Neil's mechanism to C libraries might help here.

Thanks,
Ludovic.