Hello

I'm having an issue when using the IBM xL Compiler (not GNU GCC or any other part of the GNU stack) and the configure script fails to detect that ld can link shared libaries.

The configure I am using is:

./configure --prefix=/opt/openldap --disable-slapd --disable-man --disable-client --enable-shared --with-tls --with-cyrus-sasl

A snipit from the below configure show's that the configure script fails to detect that ld can compile shared libraries.

checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 131072 checking command to parse /usr/ccs/bin/nm -B output from cc_r -qlanglvl=extc89 object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if cc_r -qlanglvl=extc89 static flag works... yes checking for cc_r -qlanglvl=extc89 option to produce PIC... checking if cc_r -qlanglvl=extc89 supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the cc_r -qlanglvl=extc89 linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... no checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... unsupported checking whether stripping libraries is possible... no checking for shl_load... no checking for shl_load in -ldld... no checking for dlopen... yes checking whether a program can dlopen itself... no checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no checking whether to build shared libraries... no checking whether to build static libraries... yes configure: creating libtool checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc_r -qlanglvl=extc89 -E checking whether we are using MS Visual C++... no checking for be_app in -lbe... no checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) no

Any idea why this is happening???

checking whether the cc_r -qlanglvl=extc89 linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... no

Or assistance on how I could modify the configure script to work.

Cheers

Peter