upgrading from 9.2.0.8 to 10.2.0.3

dev environment

aix 5.3

our developers are having issues compiling code and moving it to production which is still 9i.

 

 

 

It seems in  9i its using the libclntsh.a

/usr/local/oracle/product/9.2/lib
 ls -lt libcl*
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   dba        20878476 Jul 23 06:46 libclntst9.a
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   dba        15528406 Jul 23 06:44 libclntsh.a
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   dba         3770227 Aug 13 2006  libclient9.a
in 10.2 it is using libclntsh.so

 

 ls -lt libclnt*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 oracle   dba        23724184 Feb 18 03:42 libclntsh.so.10.1
lrwxrwxrwx   1 oracle   dba              17 Feb 18 03:40 libclntsh.so -> libclntsh.so.10.1
-rw-rw-r--   1 oracle   dba        24300970 Feb 18 03:39 libclntsh.a

 

anyone seen this behaviour cant find any hits on google .

Is there any ways we can force the use of the .a library

i could put a dummy link point to the .a  in the 9 library directory but havent tested the consequences yet.