Re: [PORTS] Failed install - libgen.so doesn't exist

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:04:38AM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> libld.a does not provide dlopen(), libdl.a does.  libld.a provides
> functions like ldopen() needed by src/backend/port/dynloader/aix.c for
> the dl*() substitutes built on AIX versions that lack dlopen and
> libdl.a, which appears to be versions prior to 4.3.

Right, so the configure test should be (sample):

if ! HAVE_DLOPEN then AC_CHECK_LIB(ld, load)
fi

So it only tries to look for -lld if it can't find dlopen elsewhere...

Have a nice day,
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