On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwall...@ssi-schaefer.com> wrote: > > > On 11/11/2014 04:02 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: >> Michael, >> >> Why does the configure change match with p*-*-aix... instead of power* >> or powerpc*? Yes, it's unique and will match, but why make it as >> short as possible, which doesn't match other uses? > > Actually I did have powerpc* initially, but gmp-6.0.0 config.guess'ed > power7-ibm-aix6.1.0.0 now. Then I've thought that one may use ppc as well, > but now I see this config.sub's to powerpc anyway, so power* is fine. > Patch updated. > >> In your documentation, how are you distinguishing between Dynamic >> Linking and Runtime Linking? > > I've tried to use the same naming scheme as in the "ld Command Reference" > and the "dlopen Subroutine" man pages. > > Actually, there is > at linktime: > Dynamic Linking: also known as Dynamic Mode or (more common) > Shared Linking: record a shared object's name into the created binary > > at runtime: > Runtime Loading: load these shared objects at process startup > Runtime Linking: resolve the symbols after loading shared objects > Dynamic Loading: load shared objects by application logic with dlopen() > > I'm unsure how to make this as clear as possible though.
Now that things have calmed down with respect to breakage on AIX, the patch for building libgcc_s is okay. Thanks, David
