>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 :-) MB -- e-mail: vidiot@xxxxxxxxxx /~\ The ASCII \ / Ribbon Campaign [So it's true, scythe matters. Willow 5/12/03] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ / \ HTML Email --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx