Re: Incorrect library suffix on newer HP-UX (.sl vs .so)

[Guido Draheim]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> It has recently come to my attention that the latest versions of HP-UX
> uses two different file suffices on shared libraries on ia64.
> Traditional PA-RISC libraries use .sl endings, while ELF style ia64
> libraries (32 and 64 bits) use .so endings.
>
> Checking the ChangeLog in CVS,
> <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/libtool/ChangeLog>, I find
> no indication that this is handled properly by the latest version of
> libtool.  Will the newest (or next version of) libtool generate .so
> libraries when building ELF ia64 libraries on HP-UX?

I am not a maintainer, and I do not want to give any premature answer
on your question, but the wording of your question has the feeling of
a mail sent to a commercial hotline. In the opensource world the hotline
phone (if such would ever exist) would be an answering machine constantly
announcing "we take patches..." .... ;-) .... with the implication that
the answer to your question might be a big "may be, it just depends whether
someone will send a good patch". Since I have no hpux ia64 machine around,
it is quite certain that I am not going to create that patch, and that
holds probably for a lot of people. So, what about you? :-)=)

have fun,
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