The problem here is that the load code (not sure if it's in QOF
or elsewhere) specifically loads .la files and not .so files.
Neil made this change a long time ago, and I remember commenting
on it long after the fact (his original proposal for this change
was hidden in one of his 10-page emails).
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Dear developers,
the SuSE people are going to package gnucash2 into their next release
SuSE Linux 10.2 (the current 10.1 was released just this week). See
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=104677 for some of the help
they needed to get this