[cvsnt] Re: cvsnt on AIX - the saga continues

[Tony Hoyle]

Hans Horn wrote:

> That's what's in /usr/local/lib/cvsnt:
> 
> ls -l /usr/local/lib/cvsnt
> total 1232
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     system       124609 Apr 17 16:12 ca.pem
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system       114402 Apr 17 16:12 ext_protocol.a
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system          810 Apr 17 16:12 ext_protocol.la
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system       128523 Apr 17 16:12 pserver_protocol.a
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system          830 Apr 17 16:12 pserver_protocol.la
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system       112391 Apr 17 16:12 server_protocol.a
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system          825 Apr 17 16:12 server_protocol.la
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system       125253 Apr 17 16:12 sspi_protocol.a
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system          815 Apr 17 16:12 sspi_protocol.la
> 
> 
There's no shared objects..?  Unless AIX calls its shared libraries .a files 
(which would be confising).

What's in pserver_protocol.la (it's just a text file)?  eg. on Linux there's 
the line:

# The name that we can dlopen(3).
dlname='pserver_protocol.so'

If AIX isn't producing shared libraries at all for some reason (it does 
support them apparently) then it's going to need an expert to work out how to 
use cvsnt under it - libtool is supposed to take care of it but it isn't a 
perfect solution.

Tony