AIX status

[Phil Edwards]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 11:39:40PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
>     decosf1 | irix | mach | os2 | solaris | win32 | dce | vxworks)
>       AC_MSG_ERROR(thread package $THREADS not yet supported)

Let's be clear here.  These are /native threads/ packages only.
"--enable-threads=solaris" doesn't mean "pthreads running under Solaris,"
it means "funky Solaris threads with UltraSPARC-specific extensions".
I point this out because it confused me at first.

We shouldn't add "aix" under there unless it has its very own
platform-unique threads library.  (Does it?  I don't recall.)


> and Phil has a pile of patches required
> for Solaris to work.

Let's be clear here, too.  The Sol-specific part of the pile is thirty
lines of preprocessor fun in os-defines.  That's what the file is
/there/ for.  (The reason nobody's been able to build on suns for months
is because we didn't have os-defines before.)

The rest of the patches are general fixes and additions that I do as
part of my duties as Junior Maintainer Number 83.  They will also
have an impact on AIX and GNU/Linux.  It's not like the library is
finished yet and there's nothing but platform-porting left to do.
(Oh, I wish... party at my place when we ship this thing!)

Once these are checked in, try building again.


Phil

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