RE: AIX-problem: the main module won't link statically

["Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> >
> > My guess is that AIX 4.3 has dl* functions and hence AIXDYNAMIC
> is not used.
> > But something goes wrong with dlopen() & Co.
>
> That sounds quite plausible. I expect that it has retained the old calls
> though so it might be a good idea to make it use AIXDYNAMIC on AIX even
> if the dl* functions are found. What might be worth trying is to use a
> contrived config.cache which indicates that the dl* functions are not
> there.
>

Something like this? We already fiddle way too much with cache variables.

To Timo, Timothy - could you test it? If you are not building off CVS you
have to patch configure.in. Stock 4.0.1 won't work with autoconf-2.50; CVS
version will.

-andrej

Index: zshconfig.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/zshconfig.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 zshconfig.ac
--- zshconfig.ac        2001/06/08 18:34:53     1.5
+++ zshconfig.ac        2001/06/09 08:47:50
@@ -1497,28 +1497,29 @@
 MOD_IMPORT_FUNCTION=
 aixdynamic=no
 hpuxdynamic=no
-if test "$ac_cv_func_dlopen"  != yes ||
-   test "$ac_cv_func_dlsym"   != yes ||
-   test "$ac_cv_func_dlerror" != yes; then
-  if test "$ac_cv_func_load"      != yes ||
-     test "$ac_cv_func_unload"    != yes ||
-     test "$ac_cv_func_loadbind"  != yes ||
-     test "$ac_cv_func_loadquery" != yes; then
-    if test "$ac_cv_func_shl_load" != yes ||
-       test "$ac_cv_func_shl_unload" != yes ||
-       test "$ac_cv_func_shl_findsym" != yes; then
-      dynamic=no
-    elif test "x$dynamic" = xyes; then
-      hpuxdynamic=yes
-      DL_EXT="${DL_EXT=sl}"
-      dnl autoheader won't allow us to define anything which isn't
-      dnl going into a header, and we can't undefine anything, so
-      dnl just define this anyway and rely on the later tests to
-      dnl define DYNAMIC or not.
-      AC_DEFINE(HPUXDYNAMIC)dnl
-    fi
-  elif test "x$dynamic" = xyes; then
+if test "$ac_cv_func_load"      = yes &&
+   test "$ac_cv_func_unload"    = yes &&
+   test "$ac_cv_func_loadbind"  = yes &&
+   test "$ac_cv_func_loadquery" = yes; then
+  dnl Force AIXDYNAMIC even on newer versions that have dl family
+  if test "x$dynamic" = xyes; then
     aixdynamic=yes
+  fi
+elif test "$ac_cv_func_dlopen"  != yes ||
+     test "$ac_cv_func_dlsym"   != yes ||
+     test "$ac_cv_func_dlerror" != yes; then
+  if test "$ac_cv_func_shl_load" != yes ||
+     test "$ac_cv_func_shl_unload" != yes ||
+     test "$ac_cv_func_shl_findsym" != yes; then
+    dynamic=no
+  elif test "x$dynamic" = xyes; then
+    hpuxdynamic=yes
+    DL_EXT="${DL_EXT=sl}"
+    dnl autoheader won't allow us to define anything which isn't
+    dnl going into a header, and we can't undefine anything, so
+    dnl just define this anyway and rely on the later tests to
+    dnl define DYNAMIC or not.
+    AC_DEFINE(HPUXDYNAMIC)dnl
   fi
 fi