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From: rudy@chukran@austin.iinus.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: building shared libraries
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Date: 15 Oct 90 16:39:46 GMT
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> Concerning my previous post: I have now succeeded in getting
> the program to find the shared library at run-time.  Unfortunately,
> I now get the following error:
> 
>    Could not load program test_program 
>    Could not load library libtest.0.1.a[shared_object.o]
>    Error was: Exec format error
> 
It looks like the library was built correctly.  I suspect that problem is
in the test_program driver.   It should be linked using cc (or xlf or whatever)
like so:  cc -o test_program a.o b.o ..... -ltest.0.1
and presuming the library lives in /lib or /usr/lib
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