Re: clues to statically building octave w/extensions?

[Bill Lash]

"A. Danial" wrote:

> This is revealing information; when I issue
>   find /usr/local/gcc/lib -name "lib*"
> I see that every library file either ends with ".a" or "a.2.10.0".
> There's not a single .so or .so.XX library!  This must explain
> why the shared objects never load.  Time to go back and rebuild
> gcc with a different setup (I think  configure  --enable-shared is
> what gcc needs).    -- Al
> 

Or maybe not.  I don't know how AIX names their shared libraries.  It
very well coud be the a.2.10.0 is a shared library.  You might want to
check this out first.  Would the "file" command tell you if it is a
shared library?

Bill



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