dl_aix.xs and RTLD_GLOBAL usage warnings

In dl_aix.xs we have:


    dl_load_file(filename, flags=0)
         ...
	if (flags & 0x01)
	    Perl_warn(aTHX_ "Can't make loaded symbols
             global on this platform while loading %s",filename);
	RETVAL = dlopen(filename, RTLD_GLOBAL|RTLD_LAZY) ;

why the warning is issued without enclosing it in #ifndef RTLD_GLOBAL/#endif?

e.g., aix 5.1 defines RTLD_GLOBAL in /usr/include/dlfcn.h

Also in order to avoid this warnings on platforms which don't support 
RTLD_GLOBAL, what's the cross-platform way to figure out the available flags, 
when overriding ld_load_flags? I couldn't find this functionality in the core 
perl/CPAN.

Currently it seems that DynaLoader is the best place to provide this 
functionality. For example the API could be:

   $flag = 0x0;
   # returns 0x0 if RTLD_GLOBAL is undef, 0x1 otherwise
   $flag |= DynaLoader::has_load_flags('RTLD_GLOBAL');
   # returns 0x4 if RTLD_LAZY is defined
   $flag |= DynaLoader::has_load_flags('RTLD_LAZY');
   sub ld_load_flags { $flag }

The problem with making this functionality in an external module is to 
duplicate all the include mess from ext/DynaLoader/dl_*.xs files.

--- ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs.orig	2003-03-19 13:14:36.000000000 +1100
+++ ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs	2003-03-19 13:18:04.000000000 +1100
@@ -695,7 +695,9 @@
  	CODE:
  	DLDEBUG(1,PerlIO_printf(Perl_debug_log, "dl_load_file(%s,%x):\n", 
filename,flags));
  	if (flags & 0x01)
-	    Perl_warn(aTHX_ "Can't make loaded symbols global on this platform while 
loading %s",filename);
+#if RTLD_GLOBAL == 0
+            Perl_warn(aTHX_ "Can't make loaded symbols global on this 
platform while loading %s",filename);
+#endif
  	RETVAL = dlopen(filename, RTLD_GLOBAL|RTLD_LAZY) ;
  	DLDEBUG(2,PerlIO_printf(Perl_debug_log, " libref=%x\n", RETVAL));
  	ST(0) = sv_newmortal() ;

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