On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:42:16PM +0200, Ludovic Courtes wrote:
> The Guile module fails to load `libmailutils':
> 
>   $ guile-1.6 
>   guile> (use-modules (mailutils mailutils))
>   /usr/share/guile/site/mailutils/mailutils.scm:37:12: In procedure 
> dynamic-link in expression (dynamic-link (string-append lib-path lib)):
>   /usr/share/guile/site/mailutils/mailutils.scm:37:12: file: 
> "/usr/lib/libmailutils", message: "/usr/lib/libmailutils.so: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory"
>   ABORT: (misc-error)
> 
> To fix it, a symlink must be installed for all shared objects, e.g.:
> 
>   root:/usr/lib# ln -s libmailutils.so.1 libmailutils.so

This is documented in README.Debian, but I'm not sure that's enough. Any
other suggestion? Depending on the -dev package is not a good
alternative, but maybe creating a (tiny) package for the guile stuff
which does depend on -dev could be.

Jordi
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