Ok, I had thought I had sent this to the list but apparently only to
Eliot.
The issue is that we don' t have a concept of looking for an absolute
path when doing the module lookup, rather we look in a discrete number
of known places,
or in various system related directories.
Should we have a modification that allows you to specify an absolute
path?
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Ken Treis <
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> Date: September 9, 2009 8:45:55 AM PDT
> To: John McIntosh <
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> Subject: IA32ABI plugin and absolute library paths
>
> Hi John,
>
> I'm not sure who to send this to, so let me know if there's a
> mailing list that'd be better.
>
> I'm using Alien on my Mac (Snow Leopard). When I tried passing an
> absolute library path to #lookup:inLibrary:, I saw the following in
> debug logs:
>
>> 9/8/09 7:41:00 AM [0x0-0x9ce9ce].org.squeak.Squeak[59719]
>> tryLoading /Applications/Squeak/Squeak 4.2.1beta1U.app/Contents/
>> Resources//opt/local/lib/libcairo.dylib.bundle/Contents/MacOS//opt/
>> local/lib/libcairo.dylib
>>
>> 9/8/09 7:41:00 AM [0x0-0x9ce9ce].org.squeak.Squeak[59719]
>> tryLoading /Applications/Squeak/Squeak 4.2.1beta1U.app/Contents/
>> Resources//opt/local/lib/libcairo.dylib
>>
>> 9/8/09 7:41:00 AM [0x0-0x9ce9ce].org.squeak.Squeak[59719]
>> tryLoading /Applications/Squeak/Plugins//opt/local/lib/
>> libcairo.dylib.bundle/Contents/MacOS//opt/local/lib/libcairo.dylib
>>
>> 9/8/09 7:41:00 AM [0x0-0x9ce9ce].org.squeak.Squeak[59719]
>> tryLoading /Applications/Squeak/Plugins//opt/local/lib/libcairo.dylib
>
> I understand the utility of being able to pass multi-part path names
> in here, but it seems like a leading slash on the filename should be
> interpreted by the primitive as an absolute path.
>
> --
> Ken Treis
> Miriam Technologies, Inc.
>
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