AIX linking: -berok in aclocal.m4 and libtool

[Daniel Pocock]

Hi,

Could anyone share any advice on using autoconf and automake to prepare 
a distribution tarball that will work on AIX?  Normally, I build the 
tarball on Linux (Debian 5).  The AIX users need to be able to use the 
tarball to build an executable (gmond), a static library (libmetrics) 
and a bunch of DSOs (e.g. modcpu.so)?

Some AIX users of Ganglia have raised queries about the -berok linker 
flag in aclocal.m4, and whether it is necessary to patch aclocal.m4 to 
remove this flag.

We're also trying various other things to improve the AIX support, e.g. 
adding "-Wl,-bexpfull" to LDFLAGS or GLDFLAGS in various places.

This all comes out of
- bug report (Ganglia bug 227) 
http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227
- and subsequent email discussion 
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg05463.html

Regards,

Daniel