>(The .a file is always a static library, right?) Not on AIX. AIX differentiates between the notion of 'shared object' and 'shared library'.
A shared object is a single object file that has the Shared object SHROBJ flag in the XCOFF header. A shared object normally has a name of the form name.o (and it is archived in the library as such). A shared library refers to an ar format archive library, where one or more of the archive members is a shared object. Note that the library can also contain regular, non-shared object files, which are handled in the normal way by the linker. A shared library normally has a name of the form libname.a, though you can also name it libname.so. Look for the "Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX" guide on IBM's website. Chapter 2 in particular provides a nice introduction to these concepts. Cheers, - Matteo _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
