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* if you don't have a libXv.so on your system, use:            *
* ld --whole-archive -shared -o libXv.so.1 libXv.a             *
* then: ln -s libXv.so.1 libXv.so                              *
* to create it or try to use --with-xv-path to set the         *
* location of libXv.so                                         *
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NOTE: This actually only builds a library with the .so extension that
can be used like a shared library. It doesn't contain any shared libraries
itself. For example, running ldd on the resulting .so file will report
that the library is 'statically linked', whereas if you had build the
file using shared libraries, ldd would list libc.so, ld-linux.so, and
whatever else was used in creating the library.