On 08/30/12 15:29, Perry Smith wrote: > ... that you can have 32 bit objects (shared or not shared) and 64 bit > objects > in the same archive ... > You can do similar tricks with executables and loadable kernel extensions.
Offtopic: How does this work with executables? > Of topic slightly but… there are a ton of magic features that are available > for > selecting and loading libraries which the open source community doesn't grok > because "its not like Linux". I'm not 100% sure but from my perspective it > appears that whatever the .la file does is mostly built into ld and the > loader > in AIX. The .la files in AIX are not needed. > I don't know what "ltdl" is "ltdl", provided by libtool, is a wrapper library around dlopen, ought to provide /one/ API to dynamically load modules on /any/ platform (that libtool supports). It does read the .la file, to know how to load the module created by libtool, and uses a few fallbacks when there is no .la file for the requested module. > On that topic, the "prefix" set of tools (...) has been ported to AIX. http://prefix.gentoo.org/ Indeed: Gentoo Prefix on AIX forces runtime-linking on, and because of that, it can use a working variant of filename-based shared library versioning. Unfortunately, Gentoo Prefix may not bootstrap on AIX right now because of myself slacking due to workwork load... /haubi/ _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
