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Re: [ANN] text buffers: really alpha release


Marius Vollmer < writes:

> Maybe one note: the libguiledlopenhelper is a very trivial thing that
> does not do any magic with regard to inter-library-dependencies.  It
> is only needed because on Linux, I need to call dlopen with
> RTLD_GLOBAL but the builtin dynamic-link function of Guile calls
> dlopen without this flag.

I think guile should natively provide access to dlopen with the
RTLD_GLOBAL flag (and all the other flags, btw), on systems that
provide it.

-russ

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