[cl-gd-devel] Premature loading of GD library can cause problems

[Alain Picard]

Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes:

> If the choice is between a) users of Lisp A may need to insert a new
> line into their applications and b) users of Lisp B can't use the
> library without local modifications, I think it is only fair to put
> some burden on the users of Lisp A.  Besides, as I said already, I
> think the change you proposed is The Right Thing[TM] to do anyway.

Well, I'm not going to argue agains my own advice;
so if you're happy burdening users with this sort of change,
I'll send you a patch; but it'll be trivial: it'll basically 
mean

 * delete the (load-gd-glue) call from init
 * export *shared-library-directories*

                --ap