GNU bug report logs - #48458
Invalid %host-type on macOS, breaking dynamic loading

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Matthew Keeter <matt.j.keeter <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 02:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Matthew Keeter <matt.j.keeter <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: Invalid %host-type on macOS, breaking dynamic loading
Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 19:21:32 -0400

Good evening,

I’m running into an interesting issue with Guile 3.07, where dynamic-link has stopped working (macOS 10.14).

(details in this thread: https://github.com/libfive/libfive/issues/440)

Hunting through the code, I see that foreign-library.scm defines system-library-extensions by checking
	(string-contains %host-type "-darwin-“)

However, my local %host-type is "x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0” – note the lack of dash after “darwin”, which means this doesn’t match, so it doesn’t look for files ending in “dylib”

Is this a Guile bug, or is the %host-type triple constructed wrong somehow?

(I know that dynamic-link is deprecated, but load-dynamic-library is also broken due to this)

Thanks,
Matt Keeter
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