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diff --git a/hints/aix.sh b/hints/aix.sh
index 60ca22a74f..01017e2684 100644
--- a/hints/aix.sh
+++ b/hints/aix.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ case "$osvers" in
esac
so="a"
-dlext="o"
+# AIX itself uses .o (libc.o) but we prefer compatibility
+# with the rest of the world and with rest of the scripting
+# languages (Tcl, Python) and related systems (SWIG).
+# Stephanie Beals <bealzy@us.ibm.com>
+dlext="so"
# Trying to set this breaks the POSIX.c compilation