From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T16:36:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby load problem on AIX

Hi,

At Fri, 6 Apr 2007 17:43:13 +0900,
Yutaka Kanemoto wrote in [ruby-talk:246920]:
> Attached patch is to change dln.c behavior not to use load() but dlopen()
> for AIX. This seemed to work in my environment.

I eventually found this thread.

> -                           DLDFLAGS='-Wl,-G -eInit_$(TARGET)'
> -                           LDFLAGS='-Wl,-brtl -Wl,-bE:ruby.imp'
> +                           DLDFLAGS="${DLDFLAGS} -Wl,-G -Wl,-bnoentry -Wl,-bexpall"
> +                           LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -Wl,-brtl -Wl,-bE:ruby.imp"

I don't know about -bnoentry and -bexpall options, are they
preferable?

> -#if defined(_AIX) && ! defined(_IA64)
> -static void
> -aix_loaderror(const char *pathname)

Do all AIX versions support dlopen()?  If not, these probably
should not be removed but be changed the condition.

-- 
Nobu Nakada