Re: AIX 5.2 module without AR container?

[Kent Boortz]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
<snip>
>>  - How do I prevent the AR version to be installed with "make install",
>>    but instead get the ".so" version, i.e. a module I can load?
>
> Use runtimelinking when compiling libltdl:
>   ./configure LDFLAGS=-Wl,-brtl
>
> If in doubt, use that always, as runtimelinking is closer to what people
> used to ELF semantics expect.

Works great, thanks!

>>  - I saw there are some versions, or hacked versions, of "ltdl.c"
>>    floating round that sets RTLD_MEMBER on AIX, enabling opening
>>    a "module" inside a AR container. As far as I can see, this never
>>    made it to the official source, why not?
>
> Please post a reference.

Found it in KDE and unixODBC, see RTLD_MEMBER

  
http://unixodbc.cvs.sourceforge.net/unixodbc/unixODBC/libltdl/ltdl.c?revision=1.18&view=markup
  
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/sourcemage/codex/stable/database/unixodbc/ltdl.diff

Again, thanks,

kent

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