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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Question on setting up libraries
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:06:42 +0100
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> In contrast, shared libraries have, by convention, the extension .so
> (for "shared object") on GNU/Linux and most other systems, or .sl
> ("shared library") on HP/UX.

Also .dylib on Mac OS X. But there are .so's too ..