>>>>> Markus writes: > I guess the linking options are wrong (too much!?). > LDFLAGS= -Wl,-brtl \ > -Wl,-bnoipath \ > -Wl,-bnoquiet \ > -Wl,-bh:5 \ > -pthread \ > ${XERCESC_LDFLAGS} \ > -lc_r -lC_r -lm_r -lpthreads -lpthreads_compat \ > -lgcc -lstdc++ -lstdc++ \ > -ldl -lnsl -lintl > SHARED_LDFLAGS= -Wl,-brtl \ > -Wl,-bE:symbols.exp \ > -Wl,-binitfini:init:fini:1 \ > -Wl,-bM:SRE \ > -Wl,-bdynamic \ > -Wl,-bnoquiet \ > -Wl,-bh:5 \ > -Wl,-bbigtoc \ > -nostartfiles \ > -pthread \ > ${XERCESC_LDFLAGS} \ > -lc_r -lC_r -lm_r -lpthreads -lpthreads_compat \ > -lgcc -lstdc++ -lstdc++ \ > -ldl -lnsl -lintl These options contain both "-Wl," to pass options through g++ to the linker and libraries automatically linked by g++ like "-lc_r". This does not make any sense. And "-lC_r" is the AIX VisualAge C++ library that is completely incompatible with G++. Similarly the CXXFLAGS define too much. The only CXXFLAGS you should need to compile the source code for a pthread application are CXXFLAGS= -pthread "-D_THREAD_SAFE" is defined implicitly by the -pthread commandline option, "-D_REENTRANT" and "-D_LIBC_REENTRANT" do not have any meaning on AIX. If your application needs "-D_POSIX_SOURCE", that is your own issue. The only LDFLAGS you should need to link a shared object are LDFLAGS= -pthread -shared -Wl,-bE:symbols.exp ${XERCESC_LDFLAGS} and use "g++" to perform the link. If you need System V-style runtime linking, you can add "-Wl,-G". "-Wl,-brtl" is used in the application link step, not the shared libary link step. If you need the "-ldl -lnsl -lintl" libraries, that is your own issue, but the rest of the libraries are redundant or wrong. Only use "-Wl,-binitfini:init:fini:1" if you really have your own initialization method that needs to be run at load-time. The priority (1) may conflict with G++ constructor priorities, if you are using G++ services in your initialization. Only use "-Wl,-bbigtoc" if your shared library overflows the TOC. And it would be better to recompile the source code with the -mminimal-toc option instead of using the bigtoc linker option. David