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Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>, cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:34:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2
- References: <87slvl3gcd.fsf@peder.flower> <433F13E4.8070605@byu.net><87mzlmmy9v.fsf@peder.flower>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Eric Blake writes:
> [snip]
> > I'm not sure whether .la files belong in usr/bin, or whether they
> > should always be in usr/lib, but that may just be my misunderstanding
> > of libtool.
>
> AFAIK, on Cygwin .la files that are used by dlopen need to be in usr/bin.
IIUC, dlopen() uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which can contain /usr/lib. The only
reason the DLLs are in /usr/bin is to make sure the Windows loader finds
them. IOW, I don't think you need the .la files in /usr/bin.
Igor
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