gcc linker finding both .so and .a in the library path which is chosen?

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Published on 2010-03-30T14:19:00Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 14:23 UTC
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If I run

gcc -c a.c -L /usr/lib -lexpat 

and both libexpat.a and libexpat.so are in /usr lib which one is used by the linker?

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