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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-list AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:37:55 +0100
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"Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT 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 AT Abbicci:~
    $ guile -c '(load-extension "libguilereadline-v-17" "scm_init_readline")'
    11:28:37 root AT Abbicci:~
    $ mv /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.la /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.la-
    11:28:44 root AT 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 AT Abbicci:~

or try dlopening fontconfig, ftm

    $ guile -c '(load-extension "libfontconfig" "FcInit")'
    11:32:02 root AT Abbicci:~
    $ mv /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la-
    11:32:22 root AT 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 AT Abbicci:~

Greetings,
Jan.

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

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