Using an AIX archive file as a library for an external procedure.

Question

I cannot use an archive file, created with the ar command, that contains a shared object that was created with the xlc and ld commands as a library for external procedures. I can use the shared object file created with the ld command as a library for an external procedure. Why would I encounter an invalid magic number and what is the resolution?
Example:
oracle:@husk21:/home/oracle> ksh -x ./Oracle_demo.ksh
+ rm shell.o shell.so shell.so.exp shell.so.imp
+ make -f /u01/oracle/product/11.1.0.7/db/rdbms/demo/demo_rdbms32.mk extproc_no_context SHARED_LIBNAME=shell.so OBJS=shell.o
/u01/oracle/product/11.1.0.7/db/bin/oraxlc -q32 -c -I/u01/oracle/product/11.1.0.7/db/rdbms/demo -I/u01/oracle/product/11.1.0.7/db/rdbms/public -I/u01/oracle/product/11.1.0.7/db/plsql/public -I/u01/oracle/product/11.1.0.7/db/network/public -I/u01/oracle/product/11.1.0.7/db/precomp/public shell.c
generate_export_list() { /bin/nm -X32_64 -B -h -g "$1" | grep -v ' U ' | awk '{print $3}' | egrep -v '^\.|^TOC' | sort | uniq ; }; generate_import_list() { LIB_NAME=$1; IMP_FILE=$2; cat /u01/oracle/product/11.1.0.7/db/rdbms/lib/xa.imp | head -1 | awk '{print $0, "." }' > ${IMP_FILE}; /bin/nm -X32_64 -C -B -h -g ${LIB_NAME} | grep ' U ' | grep -v "::" | grep -v "(" | grep -v "\.cc" | awk '{print $3}' | sed -e "s/\.//g" | grep -v "^_" >> ${IMP_FILE}; }; generate_import_list shell.o shell.so.imp; generate_export_list shell.o > shell.so.exp; /bin/ld -b32 -bnoentry -bM:SRE -bE:shell.so.exp -bI:shell.so.imp -o shell.so shell.o -L/u01/oracle/product/11.1.0.7/db/lib -lc_r -lm
ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: .system
ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: system
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
oracle:@husk21:/home/oracle> ar rv libshell.a shell.so
ar: Creating an archive file libshell.a.
a - shell.so
oracle:@husk21:/home/oracle> ar tv libshell.a
rwxr-xr-x 3514/3516 1263 Sep 08 10:00 2009 shell.so
oracle:@husk21:/home/oracle> file shell.so
shell.so: executable (RISC System/6000) or object module not stripped
oracle:@husk21:/home/oracle> file libshell.a
libshell.a: archive (big format)
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE LIBRARY shell_lib is '/home/oracle/libshell.a';
/ 2
Library created.
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE shell(command IN char)
AS EXTERNAL
NAME "shell"
LIBRARY shell_lib
LANGUAGE C
PARAMETERS (command string);
/ 2 3 4 5 6 7
Procedure created.
SQL> exec shell('ls');
BEGIN shell('ls'); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06520: PL/SQL: Error loading external library
ORA-06522: 0509-022 Cannot load module /home/oracle/libshell.a.
0509-103 The module has an invalid magic number.
ORA-06512: at "V500.SHELL", line 1
ORA-06512: at line 1
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE LIBRARY shell_lib is '/home/oracle/shell.so';
2 /
Library created.
SQL> exec shell('ls');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed

Answer 1

Using an AIX archive file as a library for an external procedure.