Vidiot wrote:
>> You don't know that - AIX commonly uses .a for dynamically loadable modules.
>> Some mean SOBs like myself force our builds to generate .so in spite of IBM's
>> absurd naming conventions.
> 
> Really?  Using .a names for dynamic libraries would drive me insane.
> At least BSD, Solaris and Linux get it right :-)

Seriously :)

dump -H /opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/4.0.0/libgcc_s.a

would tell the reporter if their .a file is a loadable module, or not.

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