Re: zsh 4.0.1 make check failures on irix, freebsd, solaris, aix, linux

[Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>]

Timothy Miller wrote:

> Some more details then:
> 
> the zsh linking command from "CC=cc ./configure --prefix=/cs" is
> 
> LD_RUN_PATH=/cs/lib/zsh cc -qlanglvl=ansi  -s  -o zsh main.o libzsh-4.0.1.so -ldl -lcurses -lm  -lc
> 
> The error that produces on trying to run the resulting zsh is
> 
> exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program ./zsh because of the following errors:
>         0509-022 Cannot load library libzsh-4.0.1.so.
>         0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does not 
>         exist.
> 
> I changed the link line to
> 
> cc -qlanglvl=ansi  -s  -o zsh main.o  -L/cs/lib/zsh libzsh-4.0.1.so -ldl -lcurses -lm  -lc
> 
> which produced the zsh that just segfaulted. It turns out it doesn't
> segfault if you don't install any modules and run it with -f, but does if
> the modules are installed or -f isn't given.
>



Timothy, have you tried my patch? I am pretty sure, the actual problem 
is that we still need export files even in case of dlopen() (libtool 
documentation mentions, that shared objects on AIX must self-contained; 
we try outsmart it :-).

 
> 
> Options (-bOptions)
> 
> The following values are possible for the Options variable of the -b flag. You
> can list more than one option after the -b flag, separating them with a single
> blank.
> 
> [...]
> 


Alas, you omitted the most interesting part - system-specific options ...

> 
> LIBPATH If LIBPATH is defined, its value is used as the default libary path
> information. Otherwise, the default library path information is /usr/lib:/lib.
> If no -L flags are specified and no -blibpath option is specified, the default
> library path information is written in the loader section of the output file.
> Regardless of any options specified, LIBPATH is not used when searching for
> libraries that are specified from the command line.
>


That would be very useful if we needed libzsh - but Oliver said, we did 
not need it even on 3.x version - so I guess we do not need it here as well.

-andrej