Re: better support for AIX 5.1

[mcnichol]

Most of the static or non-shared libraries I have seen on AIX are
created by simply archiving the individual .o's spit out by the
compiler.  The linker never touches them.

Dan

> From address@hidden Thu Jun  5 18:58:02 2003
>
> Here is the problem, or misunderstanding.  AIX does not build static 
> libraries unless the -bstatic flag is explicitly used.  The objects foo.o 
> bar.o etc are by definition shared objects. 
>