Re: More info on libldtl failure

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:10:09PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Gary,

Hi Bob!

> I have learned more regarding the failure of the CVS libltdl.  This
> error message is displayed by our application:
> 
> convert: failed to load module
> "/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick/modules/coders/miff.la"
> (dependency library not found) [No such file or directory].
> convert: failed to load module
> "/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick/modules/coders/mono.la"
> (dependency library not found) [No such file or directory].
> 
> It turns out that this failure is caused because static libraries are
> listed in the .la file, and libltdl is attempting to load them.  The
> ltdl of perhaps a month ago did not have this problem.

Thanks for tracking this down for me.  I have not been able to
reproduce it here, but from your description, I think the attached
patch should do the trick.

Let me know how it goes, and I'll check it in.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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2001-01-29-static-deplibs.patch
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