Once again, libltdl bug noticed under MinGW

[Bob Friesenhahn]

For a program built using MinGW, and which uses libltdl to load 
modules, libltdl attempts to dynamically load the library listed in 
the 'old_library' definition if there is nothing listed in the 
'dlname' definition.  This results in an attempt to load a .a file 
(e.g. "libiconv.a").  The end result is that Windows displays a pop-up 
message to the effect that the static libray is not a valid Windows 
image.

Why does libltdl attempt to dynamically load static libraries if a DLL 
is not available?  Presumably it should not need to load anything at 
all since the symbols will already be present.

I presume that this strange behavior occurs under Unix as well, but 
Unix just behaves more reasonably.

Bob
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