Hi, Bit OT I think, but here it goes : I'm reworking the makefile stuff for my PAM module, and I end up having several .a files in a dir. Those files needed to be linked into a .so file. I had the following in mind: gcc -shared -Xlinker -x -o module.so file1.a file2.a It links, however, the module is only a few KB's and can never contain all needed data. Anyone ever done this ?? The pam-0.73 file uses about the same command, but uses .o's, not .a Regards, Igmar