so back to 'so', from Stephanie Beals <bealzy@us.ibm.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4422

diff --git a/hints/aix.sh b/hints/aix.sh
index 60ca22a..01017e2 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/aix.sh
+++ b/hints/aix.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ case "$osvers" in
 esac
 
 so="a"
-dlext="o"
+# AIX itself uses .o (libc.o) but we prefer compatibility
+# with the rest of the world and with rest of the scripting
+# languages (Tcl, Python) and related systems (SWIG).
+# Stephanie Beals <bealzy@us.ibm.com>
+dlext="so"
 
 # Trying to set this breaks the POSIX.c compilation