Re: ncurses-5.6-20080329.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 19:51 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080329 - Thomas E. Dickey
>
> >         + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
> >           platforms such as AIX where libtool supports only static libraries
> >           (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
>
> Maybe need to be pedantic here: libtool _does_ support shared libraries
> on AIX, they are just done in a different way than known from Linux.

thanks - I'll fix the wording.

> Thanks!
>
> /haubi/

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