Re: z/OS

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Alon,

* Alon Bar-Lev wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:48:22PM CEST:
> Does anyone has experience with libtool at z/OS open edition?
> It builds static libraries, but it does not know how to build shared objects.

AFAICS Libtool does not support z/OS yet, which means only static
libraries can be expected to work.

Porting Libtool to a new system is fairly straightforward if all the
documentation is available.  Are you willing to help with this?
If yes, I can start writing a number of questions for it.  You could
send pointers.  Generally, the right thing to do is grab git Libtool,
start reading the PORTING file, follow pointers there, and search for
PORTME in *.m4 files.  When you have something that works, start running
the test suites to find out that you're not quite done yet.  ;-)
Post whatever you can find out, including (very important!) test suite
output.

We may need copyright papers for nontrivial patches (so please don't
post them if you're not willing to go there; in that case it is easier
if you provide pointers and test suggested patches from us).

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf