Hi Peter Thanks for your reply. > -shared is not a libtool flag
Oh, that's weird! We've been using that option for building other shared libraries for a long time. > does it work if you do: > > libtool --mode=link g++ -o libGUI.la <object files> -rpath /usr/local/lib > That doesn't work, but the result is different: libtool --mode=link g++ -o libGUI.la <my obj files> -rpath /usr/local/lib -rpath /usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64 -pthread -L/usr/lib64 -lwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_qa-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_html-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_core-2.8 -lwx_baseu_xml-2.8 -lwx_baseu_net-2.8 -lwx_baseu-2.8 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 *** Warning: Linking the shared library libGUI.la against the non-libtool *** objects <my obj files> is not portable! libtool: link: warning: ignoring multiple `-rpath's for a libtool library libtool: link: g++ -shared -nostdlib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.4/../../../../lib64/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.4/crtbeginS.o <my obj files> -L/usr/lib64 -lwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_aui-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_qa-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_html-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_adv-2.8 -lwx_gtk2u_core-2.8 -lwx_baseu_xml-2.8 -lwx_baseu_net-2.8 -lwx_baseu-2.8 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.4 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.4/../../../../lib64 -L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.4/../../.. -lstdc++ -lm -lc -lgcc_s /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.4/crtendS.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.4/../../../../lib64/crtn.o -pthread -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,libGUI.so.0 -o libGUI.so.0.0.0 libtool: link: (cd <some paths>) ln: creating symbolic link `libGUI.so.0': Operation not supported make: *** [libGUI.so] Error 1 David _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool