Re: Disable shared libraries on upcoming AIX/ia64

[Robert Boehne]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> Some pending patches introduce support shared-library support for AIX
> 5, but only for AIX 5/power.  This means the upcoming release of AIX 5
> for the AI64 platform, that uses a completely different linker and
> shared-library model (ELF, thanks God! :-), would encounter a libtool
> that doesn't support it.  I'm checking in these patches in MLB, HEAD
> and 1.3 branch, so that we at least don't attempt to build shared
> libraries on non-Power AIX platforms, to give volunteers time to
> introduce appropriate shared library support.


I am absolutely baffled by this patch.  David Edelsohn, Dan McNichol
and I collaborated on a consistent pair of patches for the HEAD and
MLB branches that actually support IA64 AIX.  They have never been
committed, and I have not seen any posting rejecting them either.
The patches were posted Jan 10 & 11 of this year.
  Did you forget about these patches, or was there somthing wrong
with them?  If not, could we have these patches committed instead?

Robert


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