[4suite-dev] 4Suite fixes for AIX (fwd)

[Jeremy Kloth]

On Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:10:45 am Mike Brown wrote:
> Next 4Suite-1.0.2 must be patched at: ./Ft/Lib/DistExt/BuildExt.py
>
> to include:
>
>         elif (sys.platform.startswith('aix')):
>             # From online manual pages, most UNIX support limiting exported
>             # symbols with the same option.
>             self.symbol_stripping = STRIP_NONE

Itself of no symbol stripping, try this instead (from AIX online docs):
            self.symbol_stripping = STRIP_EXPORTS_FILE
            self.strip_command = '-Wl,-bexports:%s'

4Suite pretty much requires limiting exported symbols, otherwise Domlette's 
Expat functions get confused with other libraries use of Expat causing random 
errors (on UNIX systems due to lazy dynamic symbol binding).

> otherwise you will get rubbish like -Wl,export_files=... which seems to
> be the Solaris specific options.

FWIW, the default export option for "posix" comes from the Open Group IEEE 
Posix Standard, it is not Solaris.

-- 
Jeremy Kloth
jeremy.kloth at gmail.com