Hi Jørgen, * Jørgen Moth wrote on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:41:49PM CET: > Hi > I was requested to forward the following description (and solution) of > an error in the libtool generating part of the configure script used > by the courier people. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for any > further information.
> We have been strugling without success for a long time now to install > the new separated courier-authlib on IBM AIX 5.x to allow us to switch > to the latest version of the courier packages. At last we have now > identified the culpit: > > The libtool script generated by the configure script is not well > suited for the courier-authlib package when installed on AIX 5.x. > The configure script erroneously presumes that the IBM linker > automatically will locate and include all objects that define the > symbols being listed in the exp-file. > Owing to this mistake the code for aix4 and aix5 in the script sets > whole_archive_flag_spec=' ' (a single space), thereby activating a > wrong branch of the convenience library code in libtool. > After having modified this setting to whole_archive_flag_spec= > (empty), thereby suppressing linker-automated whole-archive > processing on AIX5, courier-authlib installs smoothly! Thank you for this bug report. In fact, we have fixed this behavior in the CVS HEAD version of Libtool (along with a couple more changes for AIX), but not ported the patch back to branch-1-5. I'll go and see if I can find the commits that fixed this, and backport them. > I hope this message will reach the proper person responsible for the > authlib configure script. If we can be of any further help to enhance > configure and libtool please don't hesitate to contact us. Well, it would still be good if you notified the author of the package to use an updated Libtool for courier-authlib. We hope to release 1.5.22 very soon. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
