Re: How CLSQL finds and loads foreign libraries

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:04:14 -0600, Kevin Rosenberg <kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]> wrote:

>> Yes, I've tested this before I submitted the patch.  Here are the
>> results from my Debian system:
>
> Ah yes, that matches my debian sarge behavior. So, it appears the
> new version of cmucl doesn't support this undocumentated behavior.
>
>> I wonder what the difference between our system might be that
>> causes this - your newer CMUCL version maybe?  But why should they
>> make such a change?
>
> I've not looked at the cmucl source, but the error occurs invoking
> TRUENAME sometime after the SYS::LOAD-OBJECT-FILE.

Due to lack of time I'm not subscribed to cmucl-devel anymore but I
wonder if it's not worthwhile for CMUCL to revert to the old
behaviour.  It's certainly a good thing to be able to load a library
the way virtually any other programming language can do it...

Cheers,
Edi.