Building ICU on AIX without archives

[karthik.k]

Hi,

  Typically, on AIX, ICU packages the shared objects (like libicuio42.so, libicuuc42.so) inside the archive files. I am trying to build ICU on AIX without archive files. I noticed while building on AIX that, it creates the .so ICU shared libraries followed by executing "ar" command with which they package them into an archive file (libicuio.a). I am wondering if there are configuration parameters on AIX to avoid building the archives and leave them with just the .so files.

-Thanks
Karthik