Re: 329-gary-allow-RTLD_GLOBAL

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:55:11PM CEST:
>
> RTLD_GLOBAL can be passed to dlopen, but (assuming my recollection that AIX
> is one of the hosts that requires all symbols to be resolved at link time 
> is correct) in the test case I just patched, AIX can't build moddepend
> with undefined symbols.

While this may be correct for the way libtool currently works on
AIX/non-rtl, it's not correct for AIX/rtl, and even on AIX/non-rtl
it is in principle possible to defer linkage.  It's just libtool
that doesn't do it, IIRC.

Not that it matters much, but maybe someone is interested in this.
;-)

Cheers,
Ralf