Bug 246156 – dev-scheme/guile: modules broken on osx

• Product: Gentoo/Alt
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Elias Pipping 2008-11-09 12:58:27 UTC]

guile> (use-modules (ice-9 readline))
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
ERROR: file: "libguilereadline-v-17", message: "dlopen(libguilereadline-v-17.so, 9): image not found"
ABORT: (misc-error)

guile tries to load .so files instead of .dylibs.

pipping@quicksand ~ $ equery f guile | grep readline
/Users/pipping/gentoo/usr/include/guile/readline.h
/Users/pipping/gentoo/usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.17.0.3.dylib
/Users/pipping/gentoo/usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.17.dylib
/Users/pipping/gentoo/usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.dylib
/Users/pipping/gentoo/usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.la
/Users/pipping/gentoo/usr/share/guile/1.8/ice-9/readline.scm

[Comment 1 Elias Pipping 2008-11-09 13:03:03 UTC]

Creating a symlink doesn't help.

pipping@quicksand ~/gentoo/usr/lib $ l libguilereadline-v-17.so
lrwx------ 1 pipping staff 27 2008-11-09 14:01 libguilereadline-v-17.so -> libguilereadline-v-17.dylib

guile> (use-modules (ice-9 readline))
ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
ERROR: file: "libguilereadline-v-17", message: "dlopen(libguilereadline-v-17.so, 9): image not found"
ABORT: (misc-error)
guile> 

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2008-11-09 13:05:07 UTC]

That's because it looks for it in the current working dir.  Is there an option to disable dso in guile?  That's an easy workaround for a broken system.

[Comment 3 Elias Pipping 2008-11-09 14:57:51 UTC]

not that i know of

[Comment 4 Matt Ryall 2009-09-20 11:44:48 UTC]

For the MacPorts version of Guile, setting the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the location of the Guile modules (in my case, /opt/local/lib) fixed this problem.

[Comment 5 Elias Pipping 2009-09-20 11:52:41 UTC]

on osx, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is considered evil, making that a workaround rather than a fix.

[Comment 6 Elias Pipping 2010-11-19 14:11:00 UTC]

I don't have a box to reproduce this on anymore. If someone cares about this and the issue persists, please reopen it.