> Sic Transit Gloria Mundi writes: >> I would like to use Perl, DBI, and DBD::Pg on AIX. As I >> understand it, I need a shared lib version of the client libs >> for this. >> >> When building on AIX5.3 ML04 (powerpc_power5, 64 bit), it >> seems only the static libraries are built. This seems true >> with either xlc (8.x) or gcc (3.3.2). Everything works, >> there are just no ./lib/*.so at the end of the process. > > IIRC, on AIX the .a files actually are shared libraries. You don't need > anything named .so. Check the -hackers and -patches archives from back > around mid-Sept 2006 for details. Correct. libpq.a IS the shared library. Run 'ar -t libpq.a' to see the shared object therein. Try to run 'ldd psql', the output should contain 'libpq.a(libpq.so)' if it is dynamically linked. Yours, Laurenz Albe
