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

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh+libxml nimenees com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:49:48AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:04:02PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:20:24AM -0500, Parag Chandra wrote:
> > > 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.
>
>   hum, you mean that by default automake + libtools doesn't generate
> AIX shared library correctly ? If yes that's scary. Might depend on
> the version of AIX and tools too I assume.

        Last time I had a chance to play with AIX it wasn't libtool that had
the problem, at least not once I managed to get the right version of libtool
on the machine (sorry, I don't remember which one that is).
        However, there _is_ a problem if you happen to be using gnu binutils.
Unless a recent version fixed it, when building on AIX you need to use
the AIX linker, even if you're using gcc.
        btw, If you look closely enough there actually _are_ .so files.  They're
inside the .a's.  (at least for libtool built libraries.  system libraries
don't follow that convention)

eric