Re: univel support?

[Robert Boehne]

Don:

Ask your client to send you a copy of the "ld" man page.
That should tell you if shared libraries are supported.

Robert

Don Anderson wrote:
> 
> Hello libtoolers,
> 
> Does anyone know about 'univel'?  We have a customer that tried
> configuring our product (Berkeley DB) on one of these boxes, and
> dynamic libraries weren't available.  Well, we think that's true,
> indirectly, since after doing AC_PROG_LIBTOOL we evaluate
> $library_names_spec and there doesn't appear to be a shared lib suffix
> set.
> 
> Their config.guess reports:
> 
>   i386-univel-sysv4.2
> 
> It seems like a i386 based System V machine would probably have pretty
> standard shared libs - there's an ABI for it, right?  Does libtool
> play conservative (even with system V), until someone tries all the
> tests on the specific brand?  If I had physical access to the box, I'd
> do more research and try running the tests, but I don't.
> 
> Thanks, I'm more just curious, and want to raise a flag in case
> something wasn't right.
> 
> - Don
> 
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