When linking .so's, AIX's linker is generate an excessive amount of duplicate symbol warnings. In the effort to address this I started playing around with SHARED_LIBRARY_LIBS and cls pointed me to NO_LD_ARCHIVE_FLAG. I tried this flag and it seemed to really help AIX. Not only does it reduce the # of duplicate (at least it seemed to, I still get a TON from libxpcom) it also speeds up linking since we know longer have the extraction of the .o's, the additional linking of all the .o's and then the removal of the .o's from that static libs (lib<blah>_s.a).

updating info

Here are the 2 diffs, which are AIX specific, to fix this. I only need to check in configure.in, since configure is automagically generated... but I wanted to put both the diffs in. Index: configure.in =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/configure.in,v retrieving revision 1.710 diff -c -r1.710 configure.in *** configure.in 2000/09/15 22:29:20 1.710 --- configure.in 2000/09/19 14:36:10 *************** *** 1002,1007 **** --- 1002,1010 ---- *-*-os2_*) NO_LD_ARCHIVE_FLAGS= ;; + *-aix4.3*) + NO_LD_ARCHIVE_FLAGS= + ;; esac AC_SUBST(NO_LD_ARCHIVE_FLAGS) Index: configure =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/configure,v retrieving revision 1.603 diff -c -r1.603 configure *** configure 2000/09/15 22:30:12 1.603 --- configure 2000/09/19 14:36:15 *************** *** 4642,4647 **** --- 4642,4650 ---- *-*-os2_*) NO_LD_ARCHIVE_FLAGS= ;; + *-aix4.3*) + NO_LD_ARCHIVE_FLAGS= + ;; esac

a=brendan@mozilla.org, it could only bust AIX. If you want another r=, great, but I would get it in. /be

This has been checked in

verifying

closing

It is not proper QA procedure to mark bugs CLOSED. Reopening to mark verified instead.

Bugs are not to be closed until Mozilla 1.0. Reresolving and reverifying.

And verifying.