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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Robert =?utf-8?Q?K=C3=BCnnemann?= <robert@kunnemann.de>,
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Subject: Re: [bug] Python bindings fail to load shared libraries in MacOS El
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Robert K=C3=BCnnemann <robert@kunnemann.de> writes:
>
> nmlib =3D CDLL("libnotmuch.so.{0:s}".format(SOVERSION))
>
> in globals.py
>
> nmlib =3D CDLL("/usr/local/lib/libnotmuch.{0:s}.dylib".format(SOVERSION))

In recent versions of notmuch there's already code there to detect MacOS
and do something different. Are you saying that detection is not
working? Also, it seems like you are coding the absolute path name of
the library. Is that really necessary?

d