--- a/girepository/gitypelib.c.orig
+++ b/girepository/gitypelib.c
@@ -2296,7 +2296,22 @@ _g_typelib_do_dlopen (GITypelib *typelib)
         {
           GModule *module;
 
+          /* 'gobject-introspection' doesn't store the path of shared
+             libraries into '.typelib' and '.gir' files.  Shared
+             libraries are searched for in the dynamic linker search
+             path.  In Guix we patch 'gobject-introspection' such that
+             it stores the absolute path of shared libraries in
+             '.typelib' and '.gir' files.  Here, in order to minimize
+             side effects, we make sure that if the library is not
+             found at the indicated path location, we try with just
+             the basename and the system dynamic library
+             infrastructure, as per default behaviour of the
+             library. */
           module = load_one_shared_library (shlibs[i]);
+          if (module == NULL && g_path_is_absolute (shlibs[i]))
+            {
+              module = load_one_shared_library (g_basename(shlibs[i]));
+            }
 
           if (module == NULL)
             {
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<tr><td><span title='2023-03-05 23:42:28 +0100'>2023-03-05</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/packages/abiword.scm?id=dbd085ff5f91824a6c396fc88fd71c856af810d2'>gnu: abiword: Enable gobject introspection.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/packages/abiword.scm (abiword)[native-inputs]: Add gobject-introspection
and python-wrapper.
[arguments]: Enable building of gobject introspection files.
</span></span></td><td>Ricardo Wurmus</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2023-03-05 23:42:28 +0100'>2023-03-05</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/packages/abiword.scm?id=a7790d30857cd2bbfcc8691f7f4b60779459de49'>gnu: abiword: Drop input labels.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/packages/abiword.scm (abiword)[inputs, native-inputs]: Drop package
labels.
</span></span></td><td>Ricardo Wurmus</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2023-03-05 23:42:28 +0100'>2023-03-05</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/packages/abiword.scm?id=a268115ca3d62a09ad2be216295cdeaff37872f0'>gnu: abiword: Use librsvg-for-system.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>This allows us to build abiword for i686-linux.

* gnu/packages/abiword.scm (abiword)[inputs]: Replace librsvg with
librsvg-for-system.
</span></span></td><td>Ricardo Wurmus</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2023-02-16 22:41:03 +0200'>2023-02-16</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu/packages/abiword.scm?id=672036c6dfe508810b565f4cf38e4f2aad2f7151'>gnu: Remove unneeded module imports.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu/packages/abiword.scm,
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</span></span></td><td>Efraim Flashner</td></tr>