[icu-support] .so vs .a

[<Mah...@th...>]

Hi,

I downloaded the icu-3.2-LinuxRedHat9-gcc3.2.2.tgz
<ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/3.2/icu-3.2-Linux
RedHat9-gcc3.2.2.tgz>  from http://icu.sourceforge.net/download/3.2.html
<http://icu.sourceforge.net/download/3.2.html>  for linux. When
untarred, looks like the libraries have extension .so. Linux doesn't
recognize .so while compiling rather looks for .a files. If I create .a
symbolic link to the .so, it works fine. Is it the way it should be?=20


Regards,
Mahbub
=20