Hello, On 21.09.2010 19:59, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Rainer, > > * Rainer Tammer wrote on Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:15:47AM CEST: >> after this patch all tests from the old test suite are OK. > Great! > >> The new test suite still shows some problems but its getting much better: > Yeah. They pass fully with LDFLAGS=-Wl,-brtl. But the failures without > runtimelinking are long-standing, not recent regressions. That means we > don't have to fix them before the release. > Usually I set "-Wl,-brtl" but in this case I was trying to set as little as possible options.
Would it be OK to add this: diff --git a/doc/PLATFORMS b/doc/PLATFORMS index a724144..9d76364 100644 --- a/doc/PLATFORMS +++ b/doc/PLATFORMS @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ mips-sni-sysv4 gcc 1.3.5 ok mipsel-unknown-openbsd2.1 gcc 1.0 ok powerpc-apple-darwin6.4 gcc 1.5 ok (apple dev tools released 12/2002) +powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0 xlc 2.2.12 ok (with LDFLAGS="-Wl,-brtl") powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.1.0 gcc 1.2f ok (egcs-1.1.1) powerpc-ibm-aix4.2.1.0 gcc 1.2f ok and/or diff --git a/README b/README index f88901c..9e8d845 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -319,6 +319,17 @@ notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is, without warranty of any kind. +6. Platform specific notes +========================== + +6.1. AIX +-------- + +On AIX is is recommended to set: + + export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-brtl" + + > I've pushed the patch now. Gary, I'm done, but Peter Rosin has pending > stuff still. > OK > Thanks again, > Ralf > > Bye Rainer Tammer