Re: libguilereadline load

[Dmitry Roshchin]

On Tuesday 22 January 2013 23:09:51 Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dmitry Roshchin <address@hidden> skribis:
> > Is it normal, that guile tries to load "libguilereadline-v-18.so" instead
> > of "libguilereadline-v-18.so.18"? Guile  version - 2.0.7.
> 
> You normally have both, as well as libguilereadline-v-18.la, no?
> 
> Guile uses ltdl for dynamic loading (info "(libtool) Using libltdl").
> The rule is to first search for .la files.  The .la file tells ltdl that
> the real library is the .so.18 file, which ltdl then loads.
> 
> When the .la file is missing, ltdl tries the .so file instead (not the
> .so.18 file).
> 

openSUSE packaging policy requires to remove .la files. And .so file is 
contained in guile-devel package. So  it doesn't work by default.