On AIX, load shared libraries even when created with full aix-soname support: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2011-01/msg00023.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2011-02/msg00000.html Once there is an agreement on that, this patch eventually is for upstream too. --- subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c.orig 2009-04-28 14:53:35 +0200 +++ subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c 2009-04-28 14:55:37 +0200 @@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ /* find/load the specified library */ SVN_ERR(svn_dso_load(&dso, libname)); +#ifdef _AIX + if (! dso) { + libname = apr_psprintf(pool, "libsvn_ra_%s-%d.so.0(shr.o)", + ra_name, SVN_VER_MAJOR); + SVN_ERR(svn_dso_load(&dso, libname)); + } +#endif if (! dso) return SVN_NO_ERROR;