AIX support

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Sep 2 10:46:41 PDT 2007


On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 07:42:27PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Yeah, no AC_PROG_LIBTOOL in configure.ac. The question was whether the
> > additional overhead is accepatable for the general case or not. Libtool
> > would take care of this, I think.
> 
> Normally pkg-config should take care of the extra libX11 dependencies.
> configure should have set "XKILL_LIBS= -lXmuu -lX11 -lXau -lXdmcp" if
> pkg-config had done its job.

Only when doing static linking.  The problem is that AIX has a dynamic
linker, but it's incredibly half-arsed, and doesn't do recursive
linking.  I guess you could hack pkg-config to provide all the recursive
libs on AIX, which could actually be useful.

Cheers,
Daniel
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