h.b.furuseth(a)usit.uio.no wrote: "foo.la" will work on all platforms. The actual shared object that the .la file points to may have different naming conventions on different platforms. I would expect that of course yes, the system loader's standard path is OS-dependent. When the software knows exactly what must be done, failing with an error message is just annoying. If we were to do anything here at all, dummy modules would better be replaced by symlinks to the actual module, so that It Just Works. But I think just noting the discrepancy in the documentation is sufficient. I don't think it's an improvement either. Yes, overkill. And there are probably more modules out there than we would ever know about for a registry, so ultimately not useful. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/