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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-list@xs4all.nl>
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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:37:55 +0100
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"Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com> writes:

> libfontconfig1-2.4.1-1 contains /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la which
> belongs to libfontconfig-devel... I think.

The .la files are needed at runtime if client code uses libtool's
libltdl's dlopen'ing to access the shared library.

For example, try readline activation code in guile without it's .la

    11:27:52 root@Abbicci:~
    $ guile -c '(load-extension "libguilereadline-v-17" "scm_init_readline")'
    11:28:37 root@Abbicci:~
    $ mv /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.la /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.la-
    11:28:44 root@Abbicci:~
    $ guile -c '(load-extension "libguilereadline-v-17" "scm_init_readline")'
    ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
    ERROR: file: "libguilereadline-v-17", message: "No such file or directory"
    [1]11:28:46 root@Abbicci:~

or try dlopening fontconfig, ftm

    $ guile -c '(load-extension "libfontconfig" "FcInit")'
    11:32:02 root@Abbicci:~
    $ mv /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la-
    11:32:22 root@Abbicci:~
    $ guile -c '(load-extension "libfontconfig" "FcInit")'
    ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
    ERROR: file: "libfontconfig", message: "No such file or directory"
    [1]11:32:23 root@Abbicci:~

Greetings,
Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org

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