[OTR-users] gaim not loading static plugin, etc.

[Emilio Recio]

Thanks for the information. It's been years since I worked on libraries 
on linux, I assumed it was a new gcc/glibc thing.

Ian Goldberg wrote:
> The .la *isn't* the static library.  Static libs end in ".a".  A ".la"
> file is just information *about* a shared library (it's a text file;
> look at it and see).
> 
> I think now that you have /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf,
> compiling without an explicit --enable-shared should probably work fine.