Re: pkg/39633: [PATCH] Fix to ignore -Wl,-E on AIX for xlc

[Jens Rehsack <rehsack%web.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39633; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack%web.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/39633: [PATCH] Fix to ignore -Wl,-E on AIX for xlc
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:47:47 +0000

 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/39633; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/39633: [PATCH] Fix to ignore -Wl,-E on AIX for xlc
 > Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:31:19 +0200
 > 
 >  On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:30:00AM +0000, rehsack%web.de@localhost wrote:
 >  > building shells/bash breaks at the first linker invocation because an
 >  > invalid argument (-Wl,-E) will be passed.
 >  
 >  The real question is what needs to be done to export symbols for use by
 >  shared objects. This can be set in mk/platform/AIX.mk,
 >  EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS. This might be compiler specific.
 
 Sure. And now? How do I differ in mk/platform/AIX.mk between gcc and xlc? 
 Can I differ there between different compiler versions (if there're 
 differences)? etc.
 The documentation I found for all those things is very poor. Does a document 
 like a porters handbook exists which I've simply not found?
 
 I sent you an e-mail yesterday related to this and a few other issues I ran 
 into build some pkg's using xlc as recommented. I would be glad to help 
 getting a permanent improvement and don't create results you finally can't use.
 
 /Jens