on the distribution of import.so files

Erica Z <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.chicken
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
hello! i am packaging chicken for a linux distribution, and i have a 
question about the libraries that end in import.so; what is their exact 
role? under which circumstances are they loaded? would they need to be 
available to a distributed program that links to chicken?
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