On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Michael Felt <mamf...@gmail.com> wrote: > You sound much better versed than I. However, next week when I am back I'll > go thru my "obscure" and see if I can find anything to help me understand. > Someone in IBM probably had a reason for being different (i.e. COFF versus > ELF). I just hope to understand it well enough to be able to be able to get > builds to build easily.
(butting in; I was once versed enough) COFF vs. ELF doesn't matter statically resolving all symbols vs. dynamically resolving symbols does matter for some code (e.g., mod_perl for Apache); thus, -brtl is important; APR's apr_hints.m4 adds it to LDFLAGS for modern AIX IIRC, when libtool sees -brtl it names shared libraries .so instead of .a > Would you care to comment on a preference for CC definition when using XL > compilers. I am leaning towards xlc. CC=xlc_r gets you the appropriate reentrant flags
