Re: guile-gtk without dlopen (HP-UX)

[Stephen Tell <tell@cs.unc.edu>]

On 8 Nov 1999, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> However, in recent releases of Guile, dynamic-link uses RTLD_GLOBAL by
> default and thus libguiledlopenhelper is not needed at all (on dlopen
> platforms).  You might have to check the HPUX support of Guile if it
> behaves correctly, tho.  You could try to hack gtk/dynlink.scm so that
> it doesn't use the %sgtk-* functions at all.  If this doesn't work, we
> can then see how you can get by without dynamic linking.

I got my program running by hacking a copy of gtk/dynlink.scm,
removing all of the dlopen stuff, and changing 
merge-compiled-code to call the procedures try-using-libtool-name
and link-dynamic-module (found in boot-9.scm) instead of
dlopen-libtool-library and 

 
> For the real fix, I think we need to have configure find out whether
> libguiledlopenhelper is needed or not because people might still be
> using old versions of Guile.
> 
> > guile-1.3.4
> 
> This is recent enough.
> 
> - Marius
> 

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