I actually don't think --rpath-link is needed on AIX. On ELF, the --rpath-link option is used because one shared library can refer directly to another, and the linker wants to try to track down the referenced shared library in order to give appropriate warnings if some shared library or symbol is n
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AIX and System V have different views of shared objects. AIX generally sees shared objects as fully linked and resolved entities, where symbol references are resolved at link-time and cannot be rebound at load-time. System V sees them as being very similar to ordinary object files where resolution