Re: More info on libldtl failure

[Bob Friesenhahn]

The patch does work, however libtool seems to be much slower at
loading modules now.  It now takes ImageMagick about 20 seconds to
load all of its modules where before it took about a second.

Bob

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:10:09PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > Gary,
> 
> Hi Bob!
> 
> > I have learned more regarding the failure of the CVS libltdl.  This
> > error message is displayed by our application:
> > 
> > convert: failed to load module
> > "/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick/modules/coders/miff.la"
> > (dependency library not found) [No such file or directory].
> > convert: failed to load module
> > "/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick/modules/coders/mono.la"
> > (dependency library not found) [No such file or directory].
> > 
> > It turns out that this failure is caused because static libraries are
> > listed in the .la file, and libltdl is attempting to load them.  The
> > ltdl of perhaps a month ago did not have this problem.
> 
> Thanks for tracking this down for me.  I have not been able to
> reproduce it here, but from your description, I think the attached
> patch should do the trick.
> 
> Let me know how it goes, and I'll check it in.
> 
> Cheers,
>       Gary.
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