Re: can ext:load-foreign search the library paths?

Edi Weitz <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:24:42 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.cmucl.general
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:24:50 -0400, Tamas K Papp <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a way to load a library on Linux without specifying the
> exact library path (eg finding it using ld.so.conf, etc)?

SYS::LOAD-OBJECT-FILE should do it unless there have been recent
changes.

UFFI does that and there's a long thread on clsql-devel from 2005
beginning with this message

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clsql.devel/265

that eventually ends with a patch from me which does what you want.

HTH,
Edi.