On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Eric Covener <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:37 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> Author: covener
>>> Date: Wed Dec  9 01:27:49 2009
>>> New Revision: 888669
>>>
>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=888669&view=rev
>>> Log:
>>> let HP-UX on IA64 fall through to the default unix case, using .so instead 
>>> of .sl.
>>>
>>> A quick scan of a couple years of d...@apr only turned up one person 
>>> reporting
>>> results on this platform, and they had the 8/9 testdso failures as well.
>>
>> There is a better fix for this, and the test needs to be the same for dso.c,
>> testdso.c and in ./configure.
>>
>> [I'm not really happy that apr doesn't answer such questions for us 
>> programatically.]
>>
>> The .sl format is only used for hpux parisc 32 bit.  So IA64 is not the only 
>> exception.

.sl vs .so does not seem to be one of the behaviors where the PA64
behavior matches the Itanium behavior, confirmed with a PA64 APR build
and below:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90968/linkerdifferencesiapa.htm

Do you object to backporting the testdso.c update in trunk? The test
has to predict what libtool will spit out, and this gets HP/IA64 "make
check" running clean.

-- 
Eric Covener
[email protected]

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