Re: Checking gnome-guile

[Marius Vollmer <mvo at zagadka dot ping dot de>]

Ariel Rios <ariel@arcavia.com> writes:

> /usr/local/share/guile/gtk/dynlink.scm:19:34: In procedure dynamic-link in
> expression (dynamic-link libname):
> /usr/local/share/guile/gtk/dynlink.scm:19:34: file not found"

I have not tried your code, but let me try one suggestion anyway: it
is often the case that libltdl (which does dynamic linking for Guile
nowadays) tries a lot of files for a library and uses the first that
can be linked successfully.  When a dlopen fails, for whatever reason,
it carries on with its list of filenames to try.  This means that you
always get the error message that corresponds to the last name that
was tried.  So, when a dlopen fails for your lib because some symbols
are undefined, you will still get a "file not found" error because
libltdl just carries on.

This bug has annoyed me quite some time, and I really should fix it...
(libltdl should only try the next name on its list when the previous
one failed with ENOENT.)