Q: How to #ifdef for dlopen() or a specific OS Version

Started by Zeugswetter Andreas SBover 25 years ago2 messages
#1Zeugswetter Andreas SB
ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at

For a patch to fix the AIX port I would like to differentiate
Versions below 4.3 and above, or rather I would like to
differentiate whether -ldl has dlopen().

A compiler define would be _AIX43, but I guess we are supposed to
use a define from configure.

Thanks
Andreas

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Zeugswetter Andreas SB (#1)
Re: Q: How to #ifdef for dlopen() or a specific OS Version

Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:

For a patch to fix the AIX port I would like to differentiate
Versions below 4.3 and above, or rather I would like to
differentiate whether -ldl has dlopen().

Checking the latter condition seems more robust.

It's not hard. After configure.in's line

AC_CHECK_LIB(dl, main)

you could add something like

AC_CHECK_LIB(dl, dlopen, [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_DLOPEN_IN_LIBDL)])

and make the corresponding addition to config.h.in and/or
Makefile.global.in, depending on whether you need access to this symbol
from C code, Makefiles, or both.

regards, tom lane