Re: [Boost-build] AIX hardcodes paths shared libs with generated link command

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-28 08:09:11

On Saturday 28 June 2008 15:13:27 Andrej van der Zee wrote:

> > I don't think this is right appraoch -- does your
> > AIX has working support
> > for specifying sonames for shared libraries?
> > 
> 
> I think we are talking about the same thing. Unless I
> misunderstood you, the linker option -bnoipath is the
> same as -soname on Linux (I thought it was default).
> This comes from the following IBM documentation:
> http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/aix/es-aix_ll.pdf

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> 
> <START QUOTE>
> -bipath/-bnoipath:
>     This option is used to save/discard the full path
> name of the specific shared object on
>     the command line. The full path is saved in the
> loader section of the module. The -
>     bipath option is the default. If -bnoipath is
> used, then only the base names will be
>     saved in the output files loader section. For
> example:
>         xlc -o main main.o dir/mylib.so
> /usr/lib/otherlib.a
>     This will cause the fully specified path to be
> saved for mylib.so and otherlib.a. At
>     load-time the loader will always use these paths
> to find the shared objects. If the -
>     bnoipath option was specified, only the base names
> would have been saved in the
>     loader section, even if the libraries are
> specified with a full path.

The solib is different -- it's the name included in the *shared library*. If
a shared library, on Linux, has soname inside it, then it does not matter
what path is used to refer to is -- just the soname will be used.

Is there something like that on AIX?

- Volodya