Re: How CLSQL finds and loads foreign libraries

Edi Weitz wrote:
> [...]
> Now, suppose we have PostgreSQL's libpq installed in a standard
> location, like in /usr/lib/libpq.so on Linux/Unix or in
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\libpq.dll on Windows.  The following operators
> will find and load the library if /only/ the string "libpq.so" (or
> "libpq.dll") is provided:
> [...]
>   CMUCL:      SYS::LOAD-OBJECT-FILE

Are you sure this works for CMUCL? An test case illustrating
http://bugs.debian.org/317097

kevin@tiger:~> ls -l /usr/lib/libz.so
0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 2005-07-06 06:01 /usr/lib/libz.so -> libz.so.1
kevin@tiger:~> lisp
CMU Common Lisp CVS 19b 19b-release-20050628-3 + minimal debian patches (19B), running on tiger
[...]
* (sys::load-object-file "libz.so")

File-error in function TRUENAME:  The file "libz.so" does not exist.
   [Condition of type KERNEL:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR]

For now, I've worked around this by adding a /usr/lib/ to the search
path in /etc/clsql-init.lisp.

Kevin