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I know that file endings are not important for the functionality of binaries on linux, but I would like to know the meaning of two file endings I encountered from Nlopt

libnlopt.a and libnlopt.la any idea what these endings mean? I found this resource, but it didn't have the mentioned endings listed.

I'm wondering because I'm trying to figure out if the libnlopt.a was built with -fPIC or not, because following the first answer here the library was not built with -fPIC, this is strange because when building I added the option to ./configure(provided by nlopt) --with-pic. So I was wondering if the file ending means I have to go a different route to find out if it was built with -fPIC or not?

Hakaishin
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    Possible duplicate of [What is a file with extension .a?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5965171/what-is-a-file-with-extension-a) – Hakaishin Aug 08 '18 at 13:15
  • Can't I as the author of the question close it myself? I found a duplicate but still there are 5votes required to close – Hakaishin Aug 08 '18 at 13:16

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