Re: How CLSQL finds and loads foreign libraries

Edi Weitz wrote:
> OK, I'll try to come up with something that's clean and works.  But
> probably not in the next days.  I'm busy with other things and of
> course I'll also be at the European Common Lisp Meeting this weekend.

That'd be great. And, of course, "clean and works" is a great thing.

> >From my understanding of the LW and AllegroCL docs they'll load a
> shared library that doesn't have directory information in its pathname
> just like the underlying OS would do it, so
> 
> * this should apply to Linux, Unix, OS X as well as to Windows,

That'd be helpful.

> I don't know yet about CMUCL, OpenMCL, and so on but I'll make sure
> that a patch supplied by me will work with all supported Lisp
> implementations except for the ones I can't test - those that need a
> Mac or Sparc.

Wonderful, Edi -- I'll look forward to that. 

Thanks,

Kevin