On Tuesday 22 January 2013 23:09:51 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Dmitry Roshchin <dmi...@roshchin.org> 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.
