Re: libgtop for AIX 4.3/5.x

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent Vivier bull net>]

Bastien,

the quoting problem is corrected, seem to be OK with linux.

Patch is at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96073

Laurent

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 14:22, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > - "uname -v": in fact the goal is to be able to run a libgtop compiled on AIX 
> > 4.3.3 (for instance) on AIX 5.1 (for instance).
> >
> > 	  AIX 5.1	AIX 4.3		linux
> >
> > uname -s  AIX		AIX		Linux
> > uname -v  1		3		#41 SMP Wed Dec 4 12:56:12 CET 2002
> > uname -r  5		4		2.4.9
> > 		
> > 	  7428/43P	7428/43P	Xeon
> >
> > uname -m  000BACBD4C00	00402F5A4C00 	i686
> >
> > The test is in libgtop/src/daemon/server.c, line 70. I agree that it's not very 
> > clean and could be removed from patch if you think it must.
> >
> > I did that because my development system is an AIX 4.3.3 and my test machine is 
> > an AIX 5.1.
>
>
> Well, it currently breaks the build. Either you wrap it better (more
> quotes hey), or drop it. I don't see anything wrong with it otherwise.
>
>
> > - ENABLE_STATIC: with AIX, dynamic and static libraries are the same and called 
> >  lib<name>.a, so this flag introduces some problems. I think it's better to let 
> > libtool to manage this kind of thing
> >
> >
> > > Other than that, could you update the patch against current CVS ? That's
> > > the libgtop-GNOME-2-0-port branch of libgtop.
> >
> > Sorry, I have no access to CVS...
>
>
> Not a problem, it applies nearly cleanly, so could be merged once you
> have fixed the problem above.
>
> Anybody else having issues with the patch, or will it be OK for me to
> merge it once done ?
>
> Cheers


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