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Configurations/platform/AIX.pm

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package platform::AIX;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Carp;
+
+use vars qw(@ISA);
+
+require platform::Unix;
+@ISA = qw(platform::Unix);
+
+# Assume someone set @INC right before loading this module
+use configdata;
+
+sub shlibextsimple      { '.a' }
+
+# In shared mode, the default static library names clashes with the final
+# "simple" full shared library name, so we add '_a' to the basename of the
+# static libraries in that case.
+sub staticname {
+    # Non-installed libraries are *always* static, and their names remain
+    # the same, except for the mandatory extension
+    my $in_libname = platform::BASE->staticname($_[1]);
+    return $in_libname if $unified_info{attributes}->{$_[1]}->{noinst};
+
+    return platform::BASE->staticname($_[1]) . '_a';
+}

Configurations/platform/BASE.pm

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ sub sharedname  { return __isshared($_[1]) ? $_[1] : undef } # Name of shared li
 sub staticname  { return __base($_[1], '.a') } # Name of static lib
 
 # Convenience function to convert the shlib version to an acceptable part
-# of a file or directory name.
-sub shlib_version_as_filename { return $_[1] }
+# of a file or directory name.  By default, we consider it acceptable as is.
+sub shlib_version_as_filename { return $config{shlib_version} }
 
 # Convenience functions to convert the possible extension of an input file name
 sub bin         { return $_[0]->binname($_[1]) . $_[0]->binext() }