Hi, I'm a new poster here. I am porting some Solaris code over to Linux and using the GNU compiler and linker. Now I have a "meta library"(creating a "master" shared object from mayny shared objects) which creates fine in Solaris but in Linux it doesn't create as a meta library - ldd suggests that it depends on the libraries which were previously used to produce the meta library on solaris. Looking into this I can see that with every .so we effectively lose the identity and so with a metalibrary what we need to do is to "unravel" the .sos to produce the meta library. I do this in Solaris using the -z extract option. I can't see how to do this in Linux using the GNU linker. Anyone any ideas? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/gcc-the-gnu-linker-and-the--z-extract-option-tp18635245p18635245.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.