[Rd] AIX linking

[Prof Brian Ripley]

We had four years ago

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/02a/0440.html

It looks as if the export files are not required if runtime linking is 
used, e.g.

http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200001/msg00027.html

suggests -bexpall -bnoentry suffices.

This suggests that we should be linking the main R.bin executable with

	ld -brtl -bexpall -bnoentry

rather than configure's

	ld -bdynamic -bM:SRE -bE$(top_builddir)/etc/R.exp

and linking dynamic libraries such as libRlapack.so with

	ld -G -bexpall -bnoentry

(If used from gcc, escape all these with -Wl, )

Does anyone know for sure?

We really need some help from the AIX community to resolve these 
long-standing issues.


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