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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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