Re: Dynamic linking on AIX

I still would like to see a paragraph describing how AIX is different
from other platforms and what we are doing here.

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Albe Laurenz wrote:
> This is a second try; this patch replaces
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-09/msg00185.php
>
> Incorporated are
> - Tom Lane's suggestions for a more sane approach at
> fixing Makefile.shlib
> - Rocco Altier's additions to make the regression test run
> by setting LIBPATH appropriately.
> - Two changes in /src/interfaces/ecpg/test/Makefile.regress
> and src/interfaces/ecpg/test/compat_informix/Makefile
> without which 'make' fails if configure was called
> with --disable-shared (this is not AIX-specific).
>
> The line in src/makefiles/Makefile.aix
> where I set 'libpath' also seems pretty ugly to me.
> Do you have a better idea?
>
> Basically I need to convert LDFLAGS like:
> -L../../dir -L /extra/lib -lalib -Wl,yxz -L/more/libs
> to
> :/extra/lib:/more/libs
> and couldn't think of a better way to do it.
>
> It will fail if there is a -L path that contains
> a blank :^(
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe

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