"Dr. Volker Zell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
    $ guile -c '(load-extension "libguilereadline-v-17" "scm_init_readline")'
    11:28:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
    $ mv /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.la /usr/lib/libguilereadline-v-17.la-
    11:28:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
    $ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

or try dlopening fontconfig, ftm

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

Greetings,
Jan.

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