Re: [PATCH] Detect the default libpath on aix (to fix MPI support!)

[Robert Boehne]

Dan:

That is a bit goofy, but perfectly normal from my experience.
The path will be different when using gcc configured different
ways.  Unless there is some sort of limit to how long this list
of directories can be, the patch is OK with me.

Robert

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Ok, that's much easier to read.
> Thanks.
> 
> I don't know if it is a problem or not (probably not), but this patch
> will make things sensitive to the LIBPATH environment variable.
> 
> It may also include the whacko path the gcc seems to like to insert.
> For example, here is the dump output I get when compiling a simple
> program with gcc.
> 
> testpb:
> 
>                         ***Loader Section***
>                       Loader Header Information
> VERSION#         #SYMtableENT     #RELOCent        LENidSTR
> 0x00000001       0x0000001f       0x0000029b       0x00000253
> 
> #IMPfilID        OFFidSTR         LENstrTBL        OFFstrTBL
> 0x00000004       0x0000224c       0x00000191       0x0000249f
> 
>                         ***Import File Strings***
> INDEX  PATH                          BASE                MEMBER
> 0      
> /usr/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/2.9-aix43-010414:/usr/bin/../lib/gcc-lib:/opt/freeware/GNUPro/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/2.9-aix43-010414:/usr/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/2.9-aix43-010414/../../../../powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/lib:/opt/freeware/GNUPro/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/2.9-aix43-010414/../../../../powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/lib:/usr/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/2.9-aix43-010414/../../..:/opt/freeware/GNUPro/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/2.9-aix43-010414/../../..:/usr/lib:/lib
> 1                                    libc.a              shr.o
> 2                                    libXt.a             shr4.o
> 3                                    libXm.a             shr_32.o
> 
> Dan
> 
> > From address@hidden Mon Jul 23 12:03:56 2001
> > To: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detect the default libpath on aix (to fix MPI support!)
> >
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I've had to live without my normal mail connection for a couple of days,
> > but submitting the patch
> > through pine was apparently a bad idea with those long lines...
> >
> > Sorry about that - here's (hopefully) a MIME-attached version without
> > the line breaks!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Erik
> 
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