Re: [PATCH] AIX: Optional filename-based shlib versioning

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On 12/03/2014 11:09 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I sorry I forgot to thank you for this patch, which I applied in
> time for the recent 2.4.4 release.
> 
>> On Nov 24, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Michael Haubenwallner <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Support filename-based shared library versioning on AIX with the lib.so
>> library filename extension, which is used with runtime linking only.
>> Runtime linking is enabled by the -brtl linker flag for executables and
>> the -G linker flag for Shared Objects. The behaviour is similar to
>> Linux/SVR4 DT_SONAME, hence the name "aix-soname=svr4".
> 
> Much appreciated!  I did make some slight edits after applying, so
> please check that it still works for you.

Yes, testsuite results still works as expected.

One note for the case-separator in tests/versioning.at to remember:
LDFLAGS may contain both ':' and ',' eventually. OTOH, to break here
LDFLAGS value would need to be invalid anyway (sth. like "-Wl,,").

Thank you so much!
/haubi/