OK. Thank you Jonathan very much. This was exactly right, xargs command line length limitation, the follow-up question not-on-topic. Sorry. But now after learning from that, I am still having the 24-bit error relocation problem, when linking 2300 .o files into a lib, total size 29MB. I guess it has something to do with 29MB being over 2^24 bytes? Jonathan says to add them one by one to an "archive". I am really sorry for the naïve question, but I did RTFM, and I cannot find anything about "archiving". What I am doing right now is >g++ --shared -fPIC -Wl,-soname,<.so file> "<command to list object files" Does not work due to 24-bit relocation problem. How do I replace it with "adding one by one to an archive"?? I am sorry, but I RTFMd and I don't find anything about that. Mark
