Eric Covener wrote: > > .sl vs .so does not seem to be one of the behaviors where the PA64 > behavior matches the Itanium behavior, confirmed with a PA64 APR build > and below: > > http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90968/linkerdifferencesiapa.htm > > Do you object to backporting the testdso.c update in trunk? The test > has to predict what libtool will spit out, and this gets HP/IA64 "make > check" running clean.
It appears we can count on .sl on PA-32 and PA-64... I was confusing this for the availability of -ldl on PA-64 and not PA-32. Do you want to test for IA, or the absense of PA? I'd look for PA instead, as who knows what the next architecture is.
