X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bindings%2Fpython%2Fnotmuch%2Fglobals.py;h=4c49d51dd8c06c4c0d89eee6ea0aa1d60230f6e7;hb=aed5ec4350809aef34ae8290f8eda2069444b171;hp=c7632c3266d428cc42ee43c652701df13c7364dd;hpb=5973881b771b4da489a365572152c44e21c329eb;p=notmuch

diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py
index c7632c32..4c49d51d 100644
--- a/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py
+++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/globals.py
@@ -18,11 +18,16 @@ Copyright 2010 Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
 """
 
 from ctypes import CDLL, Structure, POINTER
+from version import SOVERSION
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #package-global instance of the notmuch library
 try:
-    nmlib = CDLL("libnotmuch.so.3")
+    from os import uname
+    if uname()[0] == 'Darwin':
+        nmlib = CDLL("libnotmuch.{0:s}.dylib".format(SOVERSION))
+    else:
+        nmlib = CDLL("libnotmuch.so.{0:s}".format(SOVERSION))
 except:
     raise ImportError("Could not find shared 'notmuch' library.")