[OpenAFS-devel] AIX .exp files? do they have to be installed?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:

> Do they have to actually be installed into the dest directories, or does
> anything actually make use of those files other than the afs build of the
> libraries themselves?
> 
> i.e. would an application linking against afs libraries need to reference
> afs.exp?

Yes, they must be installed.  The purpose of .exp files is to provide
symbols at link time which are actually provided by the kernel (in this
case, the AFS kernel module) at run time.  During linking, they are
treated exactly as if they were libraries.