AIX and broken collect2

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 12, 2001, Robert Boehne <rboehne@ricardo-us.com> wrote:

> I have been working to get Libtool to work with gcc under AIX 4-5,
> and there is one problem left that concerns the workaround for
> broken collect2 that was apparently checked in a few years ago:

> 1997-11-29  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

> 	* ltconfig.in (COLLECT_NAMES): Enable this workaround for a broken
> 	collect2 only on AIX 3.  This avoids problems on other AIX
> 	versions.  Reported by Stefan Westerfeld.

IIRC, this ChangeLog entry has nothing to do with this other check:

>  Libtool under AIX checks for 'resolve_lib_name' in
>  the output of strings `gcc -print-prog-name=collect2` and then sets
>  a few things accordingly:
 

> On my system, PPC AIX 4.3, I don't seem to be getting the proper result.

FWIW, it works for me on AIX 4.1.5.  I believe the different arises
from the fact that GCC's configuration headers for AIX 4.3 and above
define HAS_INIT_SECTION, so collect2 doesn't collect init symbols.  So
this test would only be meaningful for AIX up to 4.2.

> As far as I can tell, the check isn't valid for gcc 2.95.2, so
> perhaps if the broken versions could be identified we could
> check that instead.
> What versions were broken?

Andrey Slepuhin <pooh@msu.ru>, who introduced this test, would
probably know.  In fact, I have probably already asked him this
question.  You may be able to find the answer in the archives of some
libtool mailing list, at http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail

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