System loader problem?

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Ovidiu Toader writes:

Ovidiu> There seems to be a problem with dynamically linked executables created
Ovidiu> by egcs on an AIX.4.1.5 (egcs was built with --enable-shared). The
Ovidiu> problem remains even when g++ is configured with --with-gnu-ld instead
Ovidiu> of the native ld. Apparently the system loader does not understand the .
Ovidiu> (dot) special file from the loader section of the libstdc++.a library
Ovidiu> (shared library). Any idea about how this problem can be solved? 

	First, GNU ld should not be used with AIX 4 -- it definitely will
not improve things.

	G++ shared library support for AIX in EGCS relies on a feature
introduced in AIX 4.2.  Shared library support will not function with
earlier releases.

David