updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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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