Re: GTK+-2.0.0 release schedule

[Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann <mne mosaic-ag com>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:35:33PM +0000, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:04:51PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> >  - Collect information about what platforms GTK+-2.0.0 will be expected
> >    to compile and work on.
> 
> 	Ok, this is going to illustrate my strange biases, but if anyone
> has an AIX box with xlc on it, I'll do any work required to verify/fix
> the 2.0 build on AIX.  I'll even build AIX packages of the binaries like
> I used to back in the day.

One word about runtime loading and libtool on AIX.

Starting from AIX 4.x there is an dlopen()/.. interface. It works fine. But for
some obscure reasons runtime loading is only partially supported when not
using the -brtl link option wich is available first on AIX 4.3 (-brtl does not
work with DCE); libtool does not use the -brtl option for linking. The
partially support especially means that dlsym() for a symbol located in main
module (executable) will not work.

So the gmodule test fails because it try to lookup a symbol in executable.

* If any component stick to g_module_open(NULL, ...) it will not work on AIX.
  h = g_module_open(NULL, ...);
  sym = g_module_symbol(h, "anything", ...);
  sym is always NULL

* Could module-test.c be rewritten not to use own symbols?

Regargs,
		Miroslaw

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