Are you trying to build a statically linked library? Why not configure
with --disable-shared?
AG
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:10 AM Randy Geyer via Libffi-discuss <
libffi-discuss@sourceware.org> wrote:
> We are attempting to upgrade libffi from 3.2.1 to 3.3. In all our past
> installs we have been able to control the output name by modifying
> configure to set shrext_cmds=.a under the aix[4-9]* specs:
>
> aix[4-9]*)
> version_type=linux # correct to gnu/linux during the next big refactor
> shrext_cmds=.a
> need_lib_prefix=no
>
> This setting no longer seems to succeed in controlling the output name.
>