On Nov  5, 2015, Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> wrote:

> On 05/11/2015 17:28, David Edelsohn wrote:
>> [Explicitly copying build maintainers.]
>> 
>> Paolo and Alexandre,
>> 
>> Could you review and help with this patch?
>> 
>> TLS symbols in AIX display a new, different symbol type in nm output.
>> Libtool explicitly creates a list of exported symbols for shared
>> libraries using nm and does not recognize the new TLS symbols, so
>> those symbols are not exported.
>> 
>> This is a regression for TLS support on AIX.
>> 
>> This patch updates libtool.m4 in GCC and configure for libstdc++-v3,
>> libgfortran, and libgomp.  I would like to apply the patch to GCC
>> while I simultaneously work with the Libtool community to correct the
>> bug upstream.  I also would like to backport this to GCC 5.2 and GCC
>> 4.9.x.

> I think it's okay to wait for the patch to be upstream.

*nod*.  The reason we want it upstream first is that we don't want a
regression when someone updates the libtool version in GCC, now or in
the future.

It's such a simple patch that it should be really easy to get it into
libtool upstream.

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