Re: libtool 1.4 patch for AIX.

[mcnichol]

At least with the current compiler we have
"VisualAge C++, Version 5.5 for AIX 5L for IA-64, Beta 3 Release"

"-Wl,-G" does not seem to work, looks like it must be just "-G".

Dan


> From: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:28:31 -0500
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: libtool 1.4 patch for AIX.
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:27:10PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 July 2001  2:50 am, address@hidden wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:26:35PM -0500, Robert Boehne wrote:
> > > > Ummm.... Which of course makes sense as the subject is
> > > > "1.4 patch".  Sorry!  Any chance you'd like to put somthing
> > > > together for the head branch?
> > >
> > > I'll work on it in a week or so.
> > 
> > Too late!  I ported your patch to HEAD just now :-)  If you are able to
> > test it to confirm I didn't goof that would be appreciated.
> > 
> > > > +      # not using gcc
> > > >        if test "$host_cpu" = ia64; then
> > > >          shared_flag='-G'
> >                          ^^^^
> >                          '${wl}-G' right?
> 
> Dan will have to test this as we don't have AIX on IA64 here. He did
> run the testsuite with GCC and xlC (IBM's C compiler) and it worked
> with his patch. Dunno if he ran it on IA64 and the code in question
> wasn't affected by the patch. Looking at it though it would seem you
> are correct.
> 
> > With this one change, committed to HEAD and branch-1-4.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >     Gary.
> 
> -- 
> albert chin (address@hidden)