New version for 1.4 from Manus.
diff --git a/Misc/AIX-NOTES b/Misc/AIX-NOTES
index b0446f5..ce3cf90 100644
--- a/Misc/AIX-NOTES
+++ b/Misc/AIX-NOTES
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-Subject: HERE IS AIX-NOTES
+Subject: AIX-NOTES FOR 1.4
From: Manus Hand <Manus.Hand@evolving.com>
To: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
-Cc: Vladimir.Marangozov@imag.fr
-Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 16:11:10 -0600 (MDT)
+Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:02:07 -0600 (MDT)
==============================================================================
COMPILER INFORMATION
@@ -89,7 +88,7 @@
AIX shared library support was added to Python in the 1.4 release by Manus
Hand (mhand@csn.net) and Vladimir Marangozov (Vladimir.Marangozov@imag.fr).
-Python modules may now be built as shared libraries on AIX using the normal
+Python modules may now be built as shared libraries on AIX using the normal
process of uncommenting the "*noconfig*" line in Modules/Setup.in before the
build. There is one additional step required, and that is to also uncomment
the line in Modules/Setup.in which reads
@@ -141,4 +140,13 @@
contents of the "ld_so_aix" and "makexp_aix" scripts or refer to the AIX
documentation.
+NOTE: If the extension module is written in C++ and contains templates,
+ an alternative to "ld_so_aix" is the /usr/lpp/xlC/bin/makeC++SharedLib
+ script. Chris Myers (myers@TC.Cornell.EDU) reports that ld_so_aix
+ works well for some C++ (including the C++ that is generated
+ automatically by the Python SWIG package [SWIG can be found at
+ http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley/SWIG/swig.html]). However, it is not
+ known whether makeC++SharedLib can be used as a complete substitute
+ for ld_so_aix.
+
==============================================================================