Makes sense. How do you want to work things? Do you have patches against
1.3, or
against something newer? It's going to take me a little time to get my
patches
synced up with the current libtool source.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 8:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: AIX details
>
>
> Hi Howard,
>
> I also have some libtool changes for AIX I have been getting ready
> to send in.
>
> Would you mind coordinating/merging our changes so we don't possibly
> end up stepping on each other?
>
> Dan McNichol
> IBM Austin, Texas
>
> > From: "Howard Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > I've made some patches to libtool 1.3.3 (and now 1.3.5) for AIX that I'd
> > like to
> > contribute back. In brief:
> >    AIX doesn't need the "lib" prefix
> >    The -bexpall flag is not really usable for shared libraries;
> they will
> > tend to
> >       export some private C runtime symbols as well, and then runtime
> > linking will
> >       fail because these symbols are multiply defined. Fix to always
> > generate and use
> >       an explicit export file for shared libraries.
> >    Set dlopen_self to true; the test program can't determine
> this without an
> > export
> >       file so just bypass the test.
> >    Use the -bexpall flag when linking programs, to support self dlopen.
> >    The hardcoded libpath support is messy, I've cleaned it up a little.
> >
> >   -- Howard Chu
> >   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
> >   http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
> >
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