I tried "ar tv" on libubic.a and I get what I think is correct:
rwxr-xr-x 1409/105 7391044 Aug 16 10:59 2005 libubic.so.0
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 210082 Aug 02 10:56 2005 Fasta.o
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 293687 Aug 02 10:56 2005 FastaLoader.o
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 332056 Aug 02 10:56 2005 Dbrc.o
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 237825 Aug 02 10:56 2005 MysqlDb.o
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 309442 Aug 02 10:56 2005 Tax.o
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 69525 Aug 02 10:56 2005 TaxonIdName.o
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 93349 Aug 02 10:56 2005 TaxGet.o
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 648 Aug 02 10:56 2005 Tclap.o
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 265350 Aug 02 10:56 2005 Stats.o
rw-r--r-- 1409/105 81579 Aug 02 10:56 2005 StatsDb.o
Yet, libubic.a remains in the hidden directory lib/.libs which I would
have expected to have been included with the installed library
libubic.a. This seems odd to me and make me wonder how libubic.a can
find this .so file. I tried to copy it into the install directory along
with the installed libubuic.a but without any change to my linking problem.
Also in this hidden directory is libubic.exp. A good chunk of this file
contains names prepended with underscores, such as
"_Allocate__3stdHc_UlPc_Pc", but there are other names without an
underscore such as "TaxonId__11TaxonIdNameCFv".
Is this the export list that you suggest I modify/create?
Much appreciated,
John Ling
David Edelsohn wrote:
Traditional AIX shared libraries are achives of shared objects.
If you look at the archive with "ar tv" or the AIX "dump -H" command, you
should see the shared object .so file as a member of the archive.
The GCC C++ ABI name mangling prepends an underscore to symbols.
AIX's default behavior for exporting symbols from shared libaries does not
export symbols with prepended underscores. You probably need to
explicitly create an export list of the symbols that should be exported
from the shared object inside the archive library.
David
