diff --git a/Configurations/README b/Configurations/README
index 4945c1ce3b3f5e3e3afc2a32ca0c39b9f5dc02de..58c4d96c6c2c062c2bb574d92ed3ef1efb959c12 100644
--- a/Configurations/README
+++ b/Configurations/README
@@ -542,16 +542,15 @@ They are all expected to return a string with the lines they produce.
                   corresponding static library as input to make the
                   shared library, or the list of object files.
 
-    obj2dynlib  - function that produces build file lines to build a
-                  dynamically loadable library file ("libfoo.so" on
-                  Unix) from object files.
+    obj2dso     - function that produces build file lines to build a
+                  dynamic shared object file from object files.
 
                   called like this:
 
-                        obj2dynlib(lib => "PATH/TO/libfile",
-                                   objs => [ "PATH/TO/objectfile", ... ],
-                                   deps => [ "PATH/TO/otherlibfile",
-                                   ... ]);
+                        obj2dso(lib => "PATH/TO/libfile",
+                                objs => [ "PATH/TO/objectfile", ... ],
+                                deps => [ "PATH/TO/otherlibfile",
+                                ... ]);
 
                   This is almost the same as libobj2shlib, but the
                   intent is to build a shareable library that can be
diff --git a/Configurations/common.tmpl b/Configurations/common.tmpl
index d7d01dc3396c0b721021945136b55e9f26a06629..f0860dd7814128c9b7136680ad5c8397cefd7b47 100644
--- a/Configurations/common.tmpl
+++ b/Configurations/common.tmpl
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@
  }
 
  # doengine is responsible for building engines.  It will call
- # obj2dynlib, and also makes sure all object files for the library
+ # obj2dso, and also makes sure all object files for the library
  # are built.
  sub doengine {
      my $lib = shift;
-     $OUT .= obj2dynlib(lib => $lib,
-                        objs => [ map { (my $x = $_) =~ s|\.o$||; $x }
-                                  @{$unified_info{sources}->{$lib}} ],
-                        deps => [ resolvedepends($lib) ]);
+     $OUT .= obj2dso(lib => $lib,
+                     objs => [ map { (my $x = $_) =~ s|\.o$||; $x }
+                               @{$unified_info{sources}->{$lib}} ],
+                     deps => [ resolvedepends($lib) ]);
      map { doobj($_, $lib, intent => "lib") } @{$unified_info{sources}->{$lib}};
  }
 
diff --git a/Configurations/descrip.mms.tmpl b/Configurations/descrip.mms.tmpl
index ee240d11bac1cec8babce365b7eedb97368c76f1..f277bcec630cc9b436325a0de4bc8cef65b42b47 100644
--- a/Configurations/descrip.mms.tmpl
+++ b/Configurations/descrip.mms.tmpl
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ $shlib.EXE : $lib.OLB $deps $ordinalsfile
         - PURGE $shlib.EXE,$shlib.OPT,$shlib.MAP
 EOF
   }
-  sub obj2dynlib {
+  sub obj2dso {
       my %args = @_;
       my $lib = $args{lib};
       my $libd = dirname($lib);
diff --git a/Configurations/unix-Makefile.tmpl b/Configurations/unix-Makefile.tmpl
index 86d2bd95f1dd55b905c5cc2bca55ef5fe77c6450..24c6fdf1a2f76b808f8905768affb33d3a4775b5 100644
--- a/Configurations/unix-Makefile.tmpl
+++ b/Configurations/unix-Makefile.tmpl
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ EOF
 	cp -p $shlib\$(SHLIB_EXT) test/
 EOF
   }
-  sub obj2dynlib {
+  sub obj2dso {
       my %args = @_;
       my $lib = $args{lib};
       my $libd = dirname($lib);