AIX atomicity.h support

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Mon Sep 25 23:03:00 GMT 2000


>>>>> "David" == David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:

    David> AIX 4.3.3 ssupport is part of the gcc-3.0 release criteria,

This is a very important point, and I appreciate David bringing it
up.  It is indeed critical that V3 work with AIX, which means that
presumably libtool must work with AIX as well.

    David> The patch works for as much as it is trying to accomplish.  The
    David> larger problem is that the libtool support for AIX has a
    David> lot of misconceptions and the v3 configuration mechanism is
    David> far too SVR4-, Solaris-, and Linux-centric.  v3 needs to
    David> learn how to deal with AIX atomicity, AIX pthreads, and AIX
    David> shared libraries.

Alexandre, since you are a libtool expert, would you mind working with
David to see if you can identify and fix the libtool problems?

Thanks,

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