Re: SCO/bugfix patch 7 of 10: Improve SCO platform support

[Tim Rice]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hi Kean,
> 
> * Kean Johnston wrote on Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:43:03PM CET:
> > >Patch 7 of 10 attached ...
> > 
> > Here's a re-submission using install_libdir instead of the
> > 'instrpath' hack I invented.
> 
> > Rationale:
> > 
> > I like it when things work on my platform :)
> 
> Ugh.  It's really difficult to judge over this huge patch -- would have
> been much easier without the SCOABSPATH part.  Also, I haven't checked
> closely yet (other eyes appreciated!), so I'll only give a few
> suggestions:

I don't know if this is any help or not, but here are the
before and after stats on the (sco) platforms I have running.
http://www.multitlents.net/branch-1-5-status.html

> By the way, is there good online documentation for these systems' ld and
> dynamic loader?

ld man pages are here.

UnixWare 7.1.1
http://docsrv.sco.com/cgi-bin/man/man?ld+1

UnixWare 7.1.4
http://uw714doc.sco.com/en/man/html.1/ld.1.html

OpenServer 6.0.0
http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/man/html.CP/ld.CP.html

OpenServer 5.0.7
http://osr507doc.sco.com/en/man/html.CP/ld.CP.html

OpenServer 5.0.6
http://osr5doc.ca.caldera.com:457/cgi-bin/man/man?ld+CP

OpenServer 5.0.5
http://osr5doc.ca.caldera.com:1997/cgi-bin/man/man?ld+CP

> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 

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