On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:30 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Covener wrote: >> >> .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. > > It appears we can count on .sl on PA-32 and PA-64... I was confusing this > for the availability of -ldl on PA-64 and not PA-32. > > Do you want to test for IA, or the absense of PA? I'd look for PA instead, > as who knows what the next architecture is. >
Not having any luck with that, browsing their headers it seems to be all __ia64 or !__ia64. There is one red herring (starbase.c.h) , and a deprecated facility for determining the HW model (model.h) but I think __ia64 is the way to go. -- Eric Covener [email protected]
