Re: /usr/bin/nm and dlopen fix for HP-UX 10.20, 11.00

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Hi Albert,

Sorry for the delay... I was busy merging MLB into HEAD.

On Wednesday 20 June 2001  7:41 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> I'd also like to recommend a policy decision change in libtool.m4. We
> should check for shl_load *first* on HP-UX. While dlopen() is
> available, it works only when a patch is applied. Therefore, I suggest
> we default to shl_load on HP-UX which requires no patch to work
> properly.

Agreed, and applied to HEAD.

> 2001-06-20  Albert Chin-A-Young  <address@hidden>
>
>       * libtool.m4: Quote $symcode. Prefer shl_load to dlopen
>         on HP-UX because dlopen won't work properly without
>         a patch.

What is the `Quote $symcode' for?  I didn't apply this yet because I don't 
see the need for it...

>       * ltmain.in: Handle case when output of /usr/bin/nm -p
>         emits more than one symbol. HP-UX sometimes emits two
>         symbols. Correct thing to do is recognized as many
>         $symcode symbols as output but we don't have access
>         to $symcode here.

Not applied.  Subject to confirmation, I posted an alternative earlier this 
evening...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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