Alexander Lazarevic' wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 10. August 2003 17:48 schrieb Alexander Lazarevic':
> 
>>The FFI X11 examples fail because of a missing library path. Setting
>>LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/X11R6/lib make these work again for me.
> 
> 
> Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH everytime is a little cumbersome. The following patch 
> removes the manual path checking in tryLoading() and enables dlopen again to 
> find the libraries by itself (4.1-4). It also changes the search order for 
> modules/libraries.
> 
> 1. current working directory
> 2. every path in the environment variable SQUEAK_PLUGIN_PATH (colon-separated   
> list of directories)
> 3. VM_LIBDIR (set at compile time)
> 4.1 LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 4.2 list of libraries cached in ld.so.cache
> 4.3 /usr/lib
> 4.4 /lib
> 
> I don't know if this patch breaks things on other unices where the manual path 
> checking might be necessary.

I sent a fix similar to this to Ian a while a go. Croquet was broken 
because it could not find the OpenGL library. Didn't that make it into 
the sources? Anyway, see my attachment, which preserves the stat() call.

-- Bert
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*** platforms/unix/vm/sqUnixExternalPrims.c.351	Thu Jun  5 16:18:00 2003
--- platforms/unix/vm/sqUnixExternalPrims.c	Thu Jun  5 16:21:23 2003
***************
*** 127,135 ****
  	char        libName[NAME_MAX + 32];	/* headroom for prefix/suffix */
  	struct stat buf;
  	sprintf(libName, "%s%s%s%s", dirName, *prefix, moduleName, *suffix);
! 	if (stat(libName, &buf))
  	  dprintf((stderr, "not found: %s\n", libName));
! 	else if (S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode))
  	  dprintf((stderr, "ignoring directory: %s\n", libName));
  	else
  	  {
--- 127,136 ----
  	char        libName[NAME_MAX + 32];	/* headroom for prefix/suffix */
  	struct stat buf;
  	sprintf(libName, "%s%s%s%s", dirName, *prefix, moduleName, *suffix);
! 	/* only stat() if a dirName was given - we cannot search the default path */
! 	if (*dirName && stat(libName, &buf))
  	  dprintf((stderr, "not found: %s\n", libName));
! 	else if (*dirName && S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode))
  	  dprintf((stderr, "ignoring directory: %s\n", libName));
  	else
  	  {