Re: GMP Build Problem on AIX

[Torbjorn Granlund]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

  Minh Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
  >
  > 1/ Because I'm using the configuration option ./configure
  > --disable-static --enable-shared ABI=32, I would expect that only
  > the shared library is built but looking into the .lib directory,
  > it looks like both the static and shared libraries are built.
  
  I think libtool makes libgmp.a to support old versions of the linker,
  which don't allow .so, or something like that.
  
  > 2/ For the shared library, I would expect there should also be a
  > symbolic link "libgmp.so" pointing to "libgmp.so.3", shouldn't it?
  > Of course, I can manually make a symbolic link but this is done
  > automatically on other platforms.
  
  I'm not up with the conventions on aix.  Hopefully libtool knows what
  it's doing.  If the .a is the shared library then presumably there's
  no need for a .so.

It is worth noticing that all code on AIX is position-independent,
which blurs the difference beween static and shared libs.

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Torbjörn