On 24 Mar 2008, Ralf Wildenhues stated:
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:56:56PM CET:
>> I'll address 25 separately (confirmed with --disable-static, BTW).
>
> Proposed, slightly ugly patch.
It's only ugly if you consider it nasty to encode knowledge of the
program being tested into the testsuite, and if that's bad then white-
box testing is hopeless and most of the new libtool testsuite goes to
the wall :)
> Can you try it please, and do you have a
Done. (The new faster testsuite in 2.2 is decidedly nice.)
...
25: static linking flags for programs ok
yay! only 24 55 64 failed now: no new failures.
> name and email address to put in the ChangeLog and THANKS?
Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will do: it's the name I use most.
> Thus, OK to apply?
I say go for it, for what (nothing) my word is worth. (The `static'
libraries on AIX aren't really what other systems think of as static
libraries anyway, are they, what with the dynamic linker being able to
use them and all.)
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