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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS);faqs.139 #!/bin/ksh # # Permanently remove a product from disk and AIX databases # if [ `whoami` != "root" ] ; then echo You must be root to run this script. exit 1 fi if [ `uname -a | awk '{print $1$4$3}'` != "AIX32" ] ; then echo This script only works on AIX 3.2. exit 1 fi TMP_FREE=`df /tmp | awk '$3 ~ /[0-9]/{print $3}'` if [ "$TMP_FREE" -lt 1000 ] ; then echo There is not enough room in your /tmp directory. echo You need 1000 KB free, and you have only $TMP_FREE KB free. echo Either remove some stuff from /tmp, or use chfs to make it bigger. exit 1 fi ODMDIRS="/etc/objrepos /usr/lib/objrepos /usr/share/lib/objrepos" ODMDIR=/usr/lib/objrepos export ODMDIR if [ $# -lt 1 ] then echo usage: $0 lppname [lppname ...] echo lppname is a string compatible with grep, ie "X11" or "PHIGS" echo typing $0 PHIGS will remove all LPPs with PHIGS in their name. exit 1 fi NAMES=$1 shift while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do NAMES="$NAMES|$1" shift done echo "Searching for lpps with egrep \"$NAMES\"...\c" for ODMDIR in $ODMDIRS ; do if [ ! -d $ODMDIR -o ! -w $ODMDIR ] ; then echo $ODMDIR is not writeable or is not a directory. echo I hope this is because you are a /usr client or diskless. echo If you are not a diskless or a /usr client, you should stop. echo "Enter y to continue ->\c" read answer if [ "$answer" != "y" ] ; then exit 0 fi fi TMP=`odmget lpp | awk -F\" '/name/ {print $2}' | egrep "$NAMES"` LPPS=`echo $LPPS $TMP` done if [ "$LPPS" = "" ] then echo "failed.\nNo LPP with the name $NAMES detected." exit 1 fi echo ok. for ODMDIR in $ODMDIRS ; do mkdir -p /tmp/rmlpp/$ODMDIR > /dev/null 2>&1 done > /tmp/listOfFilesToRM$$ # truncate temporary file, just in case. echo echo This script is about to attempt to remove an LPP from your system. echo I say attempt, because it could fail. If it fails, you may have echo to at least reload the LPP. Use the \"lppchk\" command to make sure echo all is well with your system. echo # Loop through all the LPP names found. for LPP in $LPPS do DESCR=none answer="" # find the LPP ids. They will be different in the three SWVPD databases. for ODMDIR in $ODMDIRS ; do # get the lpp id for this ODMDIR (yes, they are different) LPPID=`odmget -q name=$LPP lpp | grep lpp_id | sed 's/.* = //'` # did we find the LPP? if [ "$DESCR" = "none" -a "$LPPID" != "" ] ; then # all the descriptions should be the same DESCR=`odmget -q name=$LPP lpp | grep description | sed 's/.* = //'` echo "Delete $LPP, $DESCR?" echo "y or (n) ->\c" read answer if [ "$answer" != "y" ] ; then # jump back up to the next LPP name continue 2 fi fi # if there is no DESCR, then we didn't find the LPP. Weird. if [ "$DESCR" = "none" -o "$LPPID" = "" ] ; then continue fi SOMETHING_DONE_FLAG=true # Optionally, save the ODM stuff we are about to remove, # in case something goes wrong. The problem is it is difficult # to determine if something really did fail, since these commands # don't return any decent error return codes. odmget -q lpp_id=$LPPID history > /tmp/rmlpp/$ODMDIR/$LPP.history odmget -q name=$LPP lpp > /tmp/rmlpp/$ODMDIR/$LPP.lpp odmget -q lpp_name=$LPP product > /tmp/rmlpp/$ODMDIR/$LPP.product # Get the list of files and links to remove later.... odmget -q lpp_id=$LPPID inventory > /tmp/rmlpp/$ODMDIR/$LPP.inventory awk -F\" '/loc/ {print $2}' /tmp/rmlpp/$ODMDIR/$LPP.inventory | \ sed 's/,/ /g' >> /tmp/listOfFilesToRM$$ odmdelete -o history -q lpp_id=$LPPID > /dev/null 2>&1 odmdelete -o lpp -q name=$LPP > /dev/null 2>&1 odmdelete -o product -q lpp_name=$LPP > /dev/null 2>&1 odmdelete -o inventory -q lpp_id=$LPPID > /dev/null 2>&1 done done if [ "$SOMETHING_DONE_FLAG" = "true" ] ; then echo ODM work is done. Now, time to delete files.... # This could be catastrophic if there is a problem. For example, # if the ODM database for an application had / as one of its files. # You be the judge. Here's your rope.... cat /tmp/listOfFilesToRM$$ | sort -r | uniq | xargs rm -rf rm -rf /tmp/listOfFilesToRM$$ echo done. fi # take this line out if you want to save your ODM saved files. rm -rf /tmp/rmlpp exit 0 1.25 *My named dies frequently, why? Running on 3.2, named dies frequently on network's primary name server. From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) Try the following: stopsrc -s named # stop running named setenv MALLOCTYPE 3.1 # use 3.1 memory allocation algorithm /etc/named ... # don't use smit to start named You might be able to use startsrc/smit after setting MALLOCTYPE and get the same effect, but I'm not sure. [According to John, the problem is malloc() in the named code. He also suggests using Berkeley's bind, which he has ported and can be ftp'ed from ftp.egr.duke.edu, /archives/network/bind-4.8.3.tar.Z. -ed] 1.26: How do I trace ethernet packets on an AIX system? From: afx@muc.ibm.de (Andreas Siegert) Do the following: iptrace -i en0 /tmp/ipt The iptrace backgrounds. Find its process id and kill it when you are ready. Then run ipreport -rns /tmp/ipt >/tmp/ipr and look at the output. The current version of Info does not document the r, n and s options but they are quite useful for layering the output. ______________________________________________________________________________ 2.00: C/C++ Contrary to many people's belief, the C environment on the RS/6000 is not very special. The C compiler has quite a number of options that can be used to control how it works, which "dialect" of C it compiles, how it interprets certain language constructs, etc. InfoExplorer includes a Users' Guide and a Reference Manual. The compiler can be invoked with either xlc to invoke it in ANSI mode and cc to invoke it in RT (i.e. IBM 6150 with AIX 2) compatible mode. The default options for each mode are set in the /etc/xlc.cfg file, and you can actually add another stanza and create a link to the /bin/xlc executable. The file /usr/lpp/xlc/bin/README.xlc has information about the C compiler, and the file /usr/lpp/bos/bsdport contains useful information, in particular for users used to BSD. The file /etc/xlc.cfg also shows the symbol _IBMR2 that is predefined, and therefore can be used for #ifdef'ing RS/6000 specific code. 2.01: I cannot make alloca work A famous routine, in particular in GNU context, is the allocation routine alloca(). Alloca allocates memory in such a way that it is automatically free'd when the block is exited. Most implementations does this by adjusting the stack pointer. Since not all C environments can support it, its use is discouraged, but it is included in the xlc compiler. In order to make the compiler aware that you intend to use alloca, you must put the line #pragma alloca before any other statements in the C source module(s) where alloca is called. If you don't do this, xlc will not recognize alloca as anything special, and you will get errors during linking. In earlier releases of the C compiler, alloca did not work well with the optimizer turned on (-O flag), but this problem is solved now. The fix was probably in release 1.1.3 of xlc.obj, it is for sure in 1.1.5. 2.02: How do I compile my BSD programs? The file /usr/lpp/bos/bsdport contains information on how to port programs written for BSD to AIX 3.1. The contents of this file can actually be very useful for others as well. A quick cc command for most "standard" BSD programs is: $ cc -D_BSD -D_BSD_INCLUDES -o [loadfile] [sourcefile.c] -lbsd If your software has system calls predefined with no prototype parameters, also use the -D_NO_PROTO flag. 2.03: Isn't the linker different from what I am used to? Yes. It is not at all like what you are used to: - The order of objects and libraries is normally _not_ important. The linker reads _all_ objects including those from libraries into memory and does the actual linking in one go. Even if you need to put a library of your own twice on the ld command line on other systems, it is not needed on the RS/6000 - doing so will even make your linking slower. - One of the features of the linker is that it will replace an object in an executable with a new version of the same object: $ cc -o prog prog1.o prog2.o prog3.o # make prog $ cc -c prog2.c # recompile prog2.c $ cc -o prog.new prog2.o prog # make prog.new from prog # by replacing prog2.o - The standard C library /lib/libc.a is linked shared, which means that the actual code is not linked into your program, but is loaded only once and linked dynamically during loading of your program. - The ld program actually calls the binder in /usr/lib/bind, and you can give ld special options to get details about the invocation of the binder. These are found on the ld man page or in InfoExplorer. - If your program normally links using a number of libraries (.a files), you can 'prelink' each of these into an object, which will make your final linking faster. E.g. do: $ cc -c prog1.c prog2.c prog3.c $ ar cv libprog.a prog1.o prog2.o prog3.o $ ld -r -o libprog.o libprog.a $ cc -o someprog someprog.c libprog.o This will solve all internal references between prog1.o, prog2.o and prog3.o and save this in libprog.o Then using libprog.o to link your program instead of libprog.a will increase linking speed, and even if someprog.c only uses, say prog1.o and prog2.o, only those two modules will be in your final program. This is also due to the fact that the binder can handle single objects inside one object module as noted above. If you are using an -lprog option (for libprog.a) above, and still want to be able to do so, you should name the prelinked object with a standard library name, e.g. libprogP.a (P identifying a prelinked object), that can be specified by -lprogP. You cannot use the archiver (ar) on such an object. You should also have a look at section 3.01 of this article, in particular if you have mixed Fortran/C programs. 2.04: How do I link my program with a non-shared /lib/libc.a? cc -o prog -bnoso -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp obj1.o obj2.o obj3.o will do that for a program consisting of the three objects obj1.o, etc. 2.05: How do I make my own shared library? To make your own shared object or library of shared objects, you should know that a shared object cannot have undefined symbols. Thus, if your code uses any externals from /lib/libc.a, the latter MUST be linked with your code to make a shared object. Likewise, you cannot split your code into more than one shared object if externals in one object refer to another one. Assume you have one file, sub1.c, containing a routine with no external references, and another one, sub2.c, calling stuff in /lib/libc.a. You will also need two export files, sub1.exp, sub2.exp. Read the example below together with the examples on the ld man page. ---- sub1.c ---------------------------------------------------------- int addint(int a, int b) { return a + b; } ---- sub2.c ---------------------------------------------------------- #include <stdio.h> void printint(int a) { printf("The integer is: %d\n", a); } ---- sub1.exp ---------------------------------------------------------- #! addint ---- sub2.exp ---------------------------------------------------------- #! printint ---- usesub.c ---------------------------------------------------------- main() { printint( addint(5,8) ); } --------------------------------------------------------------- The following commands will build your libshr.a, and compile/link the program usesub to use it. Note that you need the ld option -lc for sub2shr.o since it calls printf from /lib/libc.a. $ cc -c sub1.c $ ld -o sub1shr.o sub1.o -bE:sub1.exp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 $ cc -c sub2.c $ ld -o sub2shr.o sub2.o -bE:sub2.exp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 -lc $ ar r libshr.a sub1shr.o sub2shr.o $ cc -o usesub usesub.c -L: libshr.a $ usesub The integer is: 13 $ 2.06: Linking my program fails with strange errors. Why? Very simple, the linker (actually called the binder), cannot get the memory it needs, either because your ulimits are too low or because you don't have sufficient paging space. Since the linker is quite different from normal Unix linkers and actually does much more than these, it also uses a lot of virtual memory. It is not unusual to need 10000 pages (of 4k) or more to execute a fairly complex linking. If you get 'BUMP error', either ulimits or paging is too low, if you get 'Binder killed by signal 9' your paging is too low. First, check your memory and data ulimits; in korn shell 'ulimit -a' will show all limits and 'ulimit -m 99999' and 'ulimit -d 99999' will increase the maximum memory and data respectively to some high values. If this was not your problem, you don't have enough paging space. If you will or can not increase your paging space, you could try this: - Do you duplicate libraries on the ld command line? That is never necessary. - Do more users link simultaneously? Try having only one linking going on at any time. - Do a partwise linking, i.e. you link some objects/libraries with the -r option to allow the temporary output to have unresolved references, then link with the rest of your objects/libraries. This can be split up as much as you want, and will make each step use less virtual memory. If you follow this scheme, only adding one object or archive at a time, you will actually emulate the behavior of other Unix linkers. If you decide to add more paging space, you should consider adding a new paging space on a second hard disk, as opposed to just increasing the existing one. Doing the latter could make you run out of free space on your first harddisk. It is more involved to shrink a paging space but easier to delete one. -- Luis Basto Computer Sciences Corporation Internet: basto@cactus.org Usenet: cs.utexas.edu!mavrick!luis Xref: bloom-picayune.mit.edu comp.unix.aix:19872 news.answers:4575 Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!usc!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!mavrick!basto@cactus.org From: basto@cactus.org (Luis Basto) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,news.answers Subject: AIX Frequently Asked Questions (Part 2 of 2) Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions and their answers about AIX, IBM's version of Unix. Keywords: AIX RS/6000 questions answers Message-ID: <1070@mavrick.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 92 07:22:02 GMT Expires: 15 Jan 93 01:23:45 GMT Sender: luis@mavrick.UUCP Reply-To: basto@cactus.org (Luis Basto) Followup-To: comp.unix.aix Lines: 1156 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Archive-name: aix-faq/part2 Last-modified: Dec 12, 1992 Version: 2.0 Version: $Id: aix.faq,v 2.0 12/12/92 basto $ Frequently Asked Questions to AIX 3.x and IBM RS/6000 _____________________________________________________ 2.07: What's with malloc()? malloc() uses a late allocation algorithm based on 4.3 BSD's malloc() for speed. This lets you allocate very large sparse memory spaces, since the pages are not actually allocated until they are touched for the first time. Unfortunately, it doesn't die gracefully in the face of loss of available memory. See the "Paging Space Overview" under InfoExplorer, and see the notes on the linker in this document for an example of an ungraceful death. If you want your program to get notified when running out of memory, you should handle the SIGDANGER signal. The default is to ignore it. SIGDANGER is sent to all processes when paging space gets low, and if paging space gets even lower, processes with the highest paging space usage are sent the SIGKILL signal. malloc() is substantially different in 3.2, allocating memory more tightly. If you have problems running re-compiled programs on 3.2, try compiling them with MALLOCTYPE=3.1. 2.08: Why does xlc complain about 'extern char *strcpy()' The header <string.h> has a strcpy macro that expands strcpy(x,y) to __strcpy(x,y), and the latter is then used by the compiler to generate inline code for strcpy. Because of the macro, your extern declaration contains an invalid macro expansion. The real cure is to remove your extern declaration but adding -U__STR__ to your xlc will also do the trick. 2.09: Why do I get 'Parameter list cannot contain fewer ....' This is the same as above. 2.10: Why does xlc complain about '(sometype *)somepointer = something' Software that is developed using GNUC may have this construct. However, standard C does not permit casts to be lvalues, so you will need to change the cast and move it to the right side of the assignment. If you compile with 'cc', removing the cast completely will give you a warning, 'xlc' will give you an error (provided somepointer and something are of different types - but else, why would the cast be there in the first place?) 2.11: Some more common errors Here are a few other common errors with xlc: 305 | switch((((np)->navigation_type) ? (*((np)->navigation_type)) : ((void *)0))) .a........... a - 1506-226: (S) The second and third operands of the conditional operator must be of the same type. The reason for this is that xlc defines NULL as (void *)0, and it does not allow two different types as the second and third operand of ?:. The second argument above is not a pointer and the code used NULL incorrectly as a scalar. NULL is a nil pointer constant in ANSI C and in some traditional compilers. You should change NULL in the third argument above to an integer 0. 2.12: Can the compiler generate assembler code? The traditional -S option is not supported by the XLC compiler, and there is in fact no way to make the compiler generate machine readable assembler code. The option -qlist will generate a human readable one in the .lst file. 2.13: Curses Curses based applications should be linked with -lcurses and _not_ with -ltermlib. It has also been reported that some problems with curses are avoided if your application is compiled with -DNLS. Peter Jeffe <peter@ski.austin.ibm.com> also notes: >the escape sequences for cursor and function keys are *sometimes* >treated as several characters: eg. the getch() - call does not return >KEY_UP but 'ESC [ C.' You're correct in your analysis: this has to do with the timing of the escape sequence as it arrives from the net. There is an environment variable called ESCDELAY that can change the fudge factor used to decide when an escape is just an escape. The default value is 500; boosting this a bit should solve your problems. Further on the matter of curses, I've received the comments below concerning extended curses: From: Christopher Carlyle O'Callaghan <asdfjkl@wam.umd.edu> 1) The sample program in User Interface Programming Concepts, page 7-13 is WRONG. Here is the correct use of panes and panels. (This is one of the IBM manuals that comes with the RS/6000) #include <cur01.h> #include <cur05.h> main() { PANE *A, *B, *C, *D, *E, *F, *G, *H; PANEL *P; initscr(); A = ecbpns (24, 79, NULL, NULL, 0, 2500, Pdivszp, Pbordry, NULL, NULL); D = ecbpns (24, 79, NULL, NULL, 0, 0, Pdivszf, Pbordry, NULL, NULL); E = ecbpns (24, 79, D, NULL, 0, 0, Pdivszf, Pbordry, NULL, NULL); B = ecbpns (24, 79, A, D, Pdivtyh, 3000, Pdivszp, Pbordry, NULL, NULL); F = ecbpns (24, 79, NULL, NULL, 0, 0, Pdivszf, Pbordry, NULL, NULL); G = ecbpns (24, 79, F, NULL, 0, 5000, Pdivszp, Pbordry, NULL, NULL); H = ecbpns (24, 79, G, NULL, 0, 3000, Pdivszp, Pbordry, NULL, NULL); C: = ecbpns (24, 79, B, F, Pdivtyh, 0, Pdivszf, Pbordry, NULL, NULL); P = ecbpls (24, 79, 0, 0, "MAIN PANEL", Pdivtyv, Pbordry, A); ecdvpl (P); ecdfpl (P, FALSE); ecshpl (P); ecrfpl (P); endwin(); } 2) DO NOT include <curses.h> and any other <cur0x.h> file together. You will get a bunch of redefined statements. 3) There is a CURSES and EXTENDED CURSES stuff. Use only one or the other. If the manual says that they're backwards compatible or some other indication that you can use CURSES routines with EXTENDED, don't believe it. To use CURSES you need to include <curses.h> and you can't (see above). 4) If you use -lcur and -lcurses in the same link command, you will get Memory fault (core dump) error... YOU CANNOT use both of them at the same time. -lcur is for extended curses, -lcurses is for regular curses. 5) When creating PANEs, when you supply a value (other than 0) for the 'ds' parameter and use Pdivszf value for the 'du' parameter, the 'ds' will be ignored (the sample program on page 7-13 in User Interface Programming Concepts is wrong.) For reasons as yet undetermined, Pdivszc doesn't seem to work (or at least I can't figure out how to use it.) 6) If you're running into bugs and can't figure out what is happening, try the following: include -qextchk -g in your compile line -qextchk will check to make sure you're passing the right number of parameters to the procedures -g will allow you to use the inline debugger on Unix/AIX. to use the debugger after you compiled it, type: dbx <fn> the command 'help' will give you all of the possible commands to use in the debugger... have fun... :) 7) Do not use 80 as the number of columns if you're gonna use the whole screen. The lower right corner will get erased. Use 79 instead. 8) If you create a panel, you must create at least 1 pane, otherwise you will get a Memory fault (core dump). 9) When creating a panel, if you don't have a border around it, any title you want will not show up. 10) to make the screen scroll down: wmove (win, 0, 0); winsertln (win) 11) delwin(win) DOESN'T WORK IN EXTENDED WINDOWS. Anyway.. to make it appear as if a window is deleted, you need to do the following: for every window that you want to appear on the screen touchwin(win) wrefresh(win) you must make sure that you do it in the exact same order as you put them on the screen (i.e., if you called newwin with A, then C, then B, then you must do the loop with A, then C, then B, otherwise you won't get the same screen back). The best thing to do is to put them into an array and keep track the of last window index. 12) mvwin(win, line, col) implies that it is only used for viewports and subwindows... It can also be used for the actual windows themselves. 13) If you specify the attribute of a window using wcolorout(win), any subsequent calls to chgat(numchars, mode) or any of it's relatives will not work. (or at least they get very picky...) 2.14: How do I speed up linking Please refer to sections 2.03 and 2.06 above. 2.15: What is deadbeef? When running the debugger (dbx), you may have wondered what the 'deadbeef' is you occasionally see in registers. Do note, that 0xdeadbeef is a hexadecimal number that also happens to be some kind of word (the RS/6000 was built in Texas!), and this hexadecimal number is simply put into unused registers at some time, probably during program startup. _____________________________________________________________________________ 3.00: Fortran and other compilers This section covers Fortran, Pascal, Ada, etc. On fortran, there seem to have been some problems with floating point handling, in particular floating exceptions. 3.01: I have problems mixing fortran and C code, why? A few routines (the most famous one is getenv) exist in both the fortran and the C library but with different parameters. You can therefore not have a mixed program that call getenv from both C and fortran code. When linking a mixed program calling getenv from either, be sure to specify the correct library first on your command line. If your main program is fortran and you call getenv from a C routine, you must therefore add -lc to the xlf command line for linking. If you want to call getenv from both C and fortran code in a mixed program, you need to compile all the fortran code with the -qextname option. This appends an underscore to all fortran external names and ensures that no confusion occurs with default C libraries. Of course an underscore should be added by hand in the C code to the name of all routines which are called form fortran and to all calls to fortran routines. If you do that, fortran will call something which appears to C as getenv_ and there will be no confusion. 3.02: How do I statically bind fortran libraries and dynamically bind C libraries? From: amaranth@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Paul Amaranth) [ Editor's note: Part of this is also discussed above under the C compiler discussions, but I felt it was so valuable that I have left it all in. I've done some minor editing, mostly typographical. ] The linker and binder are rather versatile programs, but it is not always clear how to make them do what you want them to. In particular, there are times when you do not want to use shared libraries, but rather, staticly bind the required routines into your object. Or, you may need to use two version of the same routine (eg, Fortran & C). Here are the results of my recent experiments. I would like to thank Daniel Premer and Brad Hollowbush, my SE, for hints. Any mistakes or omissions are my own and I have tended to interchange the terms "linker" and "binder". These experiments were performed on AIX 3.1.2. Most of this should be applicable to later upgrades of 3.1. 1) I have some C programs, I want to bind in the runtime routines. How do I do this? [Mentioned in section 2.04 of this article as well, ed.] You can put the -bnso binder command on the link line. You should also include the -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp control argument: $ cc *.o -bnso -bI:/lib/syscalls.exp -o foo This will magically do everything you need. Note that this will bind _all_ required routines in. The -bI argument tells the linker that these entry points will be resolved dynamically at runtime (these are system calls). If you omit this you will get lots of unresolved reference messages. 2) I want to staticly bind in the Fortran runtime so a) my customers do not need to buy it and b) I don't have to worry about the runtime changing on a new release. Can I use the two binder arguments in 1) to do this? You should be able to do so, but, at least under 3002, if you do you will get a linker error referencing getenv. In addition, there are a number of potential conflicts between Fortran and C routines. The easy way just does not work. See the section on 2 stage linking for C and Fortran on how to do this. The getenv problem is a mess, see the section on Comments & Caveats for more. 3) I have a mixture of C and Fortran routines, how can I make sure that the C routines reference the C getenv, while the Fortran routines reference the Fortran getenv (which has different parameters and, if called mistakenly by a C routine results in a segmentation fault)? You can't. Only one symbol definition is allowed, and it will be the _first_ definition on the _last_ link. Here is the quote from the ld info file: In this version of ld, the first definition of each symbol in the link takes precedence and is used even if the first reference follows the definition. The only way I can possibly think of to do this is extremely messy: Make the C and Fortran routines separate modules. Staticly bind them with their libraries. Have them dynamicly call each other. ech. I haven't tried this, however. If you want to bind everything together, write yourself an interface in one language to use the other's routine. I did this with getenv and it works tolerably well. 4) I have C and Fortran routines. I want to bind in the xlf library, while letting the rest of the libraries be shared. How do I do this? You need to do a 2 stage link. In the first stage, you bind in the xlf library routines, creating an intermediate object file. The second stage resolves the remaining references to the shared libraries.