Re: [xml] AIX 5.1: libxml2 linked statically, yet complains of missing libxml2.so.2 ?

[Albert Chin <libxml mlists thewrittenword com>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:20:24AM -0500, Parag Chandra wrote:
> exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program ./vs because of the following errors:
>
>         0509-150   Dependent module ../../../libxml2/rs41/lib/libxml2.a
> (libxml2.so.2) could not be loaded.
>
>         0509-022 Cannot load module ../../../libxml2/rs41/lib/libxml2.a
> (libxml2.so.2).
>
>         0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does not
> exist.
>
>  
>
> I don?t understand why it would be trying to load what appears to be
> the shared library when I have linked against libxml2.a. In fact, I
> cannot even locate the shared library; it doesn?t seem like it was
> built. After doing a ?make install?, all I see in the lib/ subdir
> are the following 4 files: libxml2.a, libxml2.la, pkgconfig,
> xml2Conf.sh.

The default shared library extension on AIX is `.a'. Look at /usr/lib.
You won't find many `.so' files. To have libtool create a `.so'
extension, set LDFLAGS="-Wl,-brtl" in your environment before
./configure.

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albert chin (china thewrittenword com)