Re: AIX shared library patch

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Lital Natan wrote:

> Hello,
> I've seen mentioning of a patch to solve the "Shared libraries are not 
> supported in this version" configure message on AIX (simply by adding the 
> correct CC_SHARED_OPTS and MK_SHARED_LIBS values). The mail regarded ncurses 
> 5.5, but in 5.7 there is still no mentioning of this fix. Why?

I don't recall seeing it before.

> It seems there is simply no aix clause.
>
> Anycase, here is my patch for compiling ncurses-5.7 shared library on AIX.
> please note that I'm not taking for account which AIX version it is, meaning 
> my patch is probably flawed when it comes to older AIX versions (I use 6.1, 
> it should be fine for 5.1+ as well)

thanks (for gcc, anyway ;-)

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