[HECnet] building simh

[Oleg Safiullin]

Is it possible to explain what the magic does?
More precisely: what is the difference between an .a and an .so library?

-l<libname> links executable with library `lib<libname>' (.so is used by defalt, unless -static is specified in which case .a is used)
-L<dir> adds <dir> to library search path

default library search path is configured by `ldconfig' utility or /etc/ld.so.sonf, /etc/ld.so.conf.d/* under Linux

.a is a static library
.so is a dynamic library