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From:
H . Merijn Brand
Date:
June 29, 2001 06:02
Subject:
Re: AIX / gcc-3.0
Message ID:
20010629150011.9DB5.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl
On Thu 28 Jun 2001 21:52, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote:
> > Could you *please* (if only for tonight) apply this patch so I can see what
> > happens with native vac on AIX 4.3.0.0?
> 
> Done.

Revert. Blast. Grrrrrrrrr.

Also allowing hinting would mak etesting a *lot* easier:

--- hints/aix.sh	Thu Jun 28 21:52:31 2001
+++ hints/aix.sh	Fri Jun 29 14:57:52 2001
@@ -53,13 +53,21 @@
 
 # AIX 4.3.* and above default to using nm for symbol extraction
 case "$osvers" in
-   3.*|4.1.*|4.2.*|4.3.0.*)
-      usenm='undef'
-      usenativedlopen='false'
+   3.*|4.1.*|4.2.*)
+      case "$usenm" in
+	  '') usenm='undef'
+	  esac
+      case "$usenativedlopen" in
+	  '') usenativedlopen='false'
+	  esac
       ;;
    *)
-      usenm='true'
-      usenativedlopen='true'
+      case "$usenm" in
+	  '') usenm='true'
+	  esac
+      case "$usenativedlopen" in
+	  '') usenativedlopen='true'
+	  esac
       ;;
 esac
 

> > There should be more research done, because gcc-3.0 for AIX does **NOT**
> > support the -brtl flag! So none of the gcc-3.0 configurations would succeed
> > anyway (probably also not in 4.3.3, but since I don't have that yet, I can't
> > tell for sure.
> > 
> > IMHO the default should be more relaxing towards false, but IIRC there has
> > been some kind of sine wave from true to false to true to false to ...

-- 
H.Merijn Brand    Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://www.amsterdam.pm.org/)
using perl-5.6.1, 5.7.1 & 626 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3,
     WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11 often with Tk800.022 &/| DBD-Unify
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/


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