[cffi-devel] CFFI foreign library error pathname patch

Zach Beane xach at xach.com
Sun Dec 18 12:40:19 UTC 2011


Luís Oliveira <luismbo at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
>> The use-case I had in mind was an environment that caught the error and
>> offered a useful action, e.g. "install the library via
>> apt/homebrew/macports/etc and continue".
>
> OK, and so you'd like to get a hold of
> "/maybe/some/path/to/libfoo.so.x" or whatever. Hmm, so maybe in
> try-foreign-library-alternatives we could store the first alternative
> since that should usually be something like "libfoo.so.x".

It would be nice to have all the alternatives.

Zach




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