Re: HP-UX PA-RISC/Itanium 64-bit Patch and HP-UX 11.23 Patch

>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:27:13 -0600, "Ed L." <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net> said:

>> > > Shinji Teragaito <shinji(at)kobe(dot)hp(dot)com> writes:
>> > >> I made a patch to let PostgreSQL work in the LP64 data model on
>> > >> HP-UX PA-RISC and HP-UX Itanium platform.

> I see Shinji's patch changed the library suffix from .sl to .so for ia64.
> Is that is necessary? If so, why?

HP-UX Itanium native shared library suffix is ".so", not ".sl".
My patch conforms to such a convention.

Please take a look at the directory /usr/lib/hpux{32,64}. Note ".sl"
libraries under /usr/lib and /usr/lib/pa{1.1,2.0,20_32,20_64} are PA
binaries for Aries.

Cheers,

Shinji