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  r62145 | thomas.heller | 2008-04-04 12:07:55 +0200 (Fri, 04 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when gcc
  is used as compiler.
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diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index dd96bbe..a1c044f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1468,7 +1468,11 @@
 		then LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared'
 		else LDSHARED='$(CC) -G';
 		fi ;;
-	hp*|HP*) LDSHARED="ld -b";;
+	hp*|HP*)
+		if test "$GCC" = "yes"
+		then LDSHARED='$(CC) -shared'
+		else LDSHARED='ld -b';
+		fi ;;
 	OSF*) LDSHARED="ld -shared -expect_unresolved \"*\"";;
 	Darwin/1.3*)
 		LDSHARED='$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -bundle'