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On 2 Mar 2011, at 22:22, Andy Wingo wrote:

> What if you leave off the suffix?
>=20
>    scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (system foreign))
>    scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "libm")
>    $1 =3D #<dynamic-object "libm">

That does not work for me.
  scheme@(guile-user)> (dynamic-link "libm")
  ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
  ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libm", message: "file not =
found"

> Guile uses libltdl, which does this sort of thing.

Yes, that is the problem, I think. I saw it on the Bessel-function =
example in the manual, and reported it before.