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?

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From: Ken Treis ken@miriamtech.com Date: September 9, 2009 8:45:55 AM PDT To: John McIntosh johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com 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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