Re: [CLSQL-Devel] How CLSQL finds and loads foreign libraries

Kevin Rosenberg <kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:38:31 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.uffi.devel,gmane.lisp.clsql.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Edi Weitz wrote:
> Hmm, OK, then maybe we can conditionalize the usage of TRUENAME to
> Windows.  I first tested on Linux without TRUENAME and then on Windows
> where I realized that without TRUENAME at least LispWorks treats names
> with absolute paths like UNC names (or however they're called) and
> loading CLSQL takes a lot longer.  So I introduced TRUENAME and when
> testing on Linux again I might have skipped some platforms.
> 
> As I said, I think TRUENAME is only needed on Windows and Windows
> doesn't have symbolic links, so conditionalizing this should be OK.

I'll conditionalize on both Lispworks and Windows with a note about
this issue. 

Thanks!

Kevin