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Subject: Re: Packaging error in the latest libguile12-1.6.4-12 ?
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Organization: Jan at Appel
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:16:39 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0309190901290.12411@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (Igor
 Pechtchanski's message of "Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:05:22 -0400 (EDT)")
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Igor Pechtchanski writes:

>> No, this is correct.  These are dlopened and need to be in PATH.  Try:
>>
>>     guile -c '(use-modules (srfi srfi-4) (srfi srfi-13) (srfi srfi-14))'
>>
>> Jan.
>
> Aren't the names a bit misleading, then?  The .la files are supposed to be
> libtool library files, i.e., plain text.

They are, but they are used at dlopen-time to find the dlls.  Just try
the command above without the .la files in PATH.

Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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