problem with autoconf output for AIX

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

I'd like to forward some information about what appears to be an
autoconf bug on AIX 4.3.3 (at least).

I do not have access to an AIX machine myself, but am providing this
information based on a bug report filed against the Expat project on
SourceForge, of which I am a maintainer.

This bug report:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=576396&group_id=10127&atid=110127

indicates that the paths in the generated configure script are not set
correctly; $objdir is used instead of $output_objdir.  The reported
indicates that this change to the generated configure solves the
problem:

--- configure.orig      2002-07-02 09:33:45.000000000 -0300
+++ configure   2002-07-02 09:34:44.000000000 -0300
@@ -4881,7 +4881,7 @@
         allow_undefined_flag='${wl}-berok'
         # This is a bit strange, but is similar to how AIX traditionally builds
         # it's shared libraries.
-        archive_expsym_cmds="\$CC $shared_flag"' -o $output_objdir/$soname 
$libobjs $deplibs $compiler_flags ${allow_undefined_flag} 
'"\${wl}$no_entry_flag \${wl}$exp_sym_flag:\$export_symbols"' ~$AR -crlo 
$objdir/$libname$release.a $objdir/$soname'
+        archive_expsym_cmds="\$CC $shared_flag"' -o $output_objdir/$soname 
$libobjs $deplibs $compiler_flags ${allow_undefined_flag} 
'"\${wl}$no_entry_flag \${wl}$exp_sym_flag:\$export_symbols"' ~$AR -crlo 
$output_objdir/$libname$release.a $output_objdir/$soname'
       fi
     fi
     ;;


I'm using autoconf 2.53 for this project.


  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation