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?