Re: texinfo-6.1.90 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On 15 August 2016 at 02:54, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> On AIX, fails as before ( 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-02/msg00008.html ).

Quoting

> On AIX-7.1,power7, compilation fails with:
> ====
>         gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2   -o ginfo dir.o display.o dribble.o
> echo-area.o filesys.o footnotes.o  indices.o info-utils.o info.o  infodoc.o
> infokey.o infomap.o  infopath.o m-x.o man.o  nodemenu.o nodes.o search.o
> session.o signals.o tag.o  terminal.o tilde.o variables.o  window.o doc.o
> ../gnulib/lib/libgnu.a -lcurses -lintl -liconv
>         ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_mutex_init
>         ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_mutex_destroy
>         ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_mutex_lock
>         ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_mutex_unlock
>         ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more
> information.

I'd guess that it needs to be compiled with the -pthread option. ginfo
itself doesn't use threads, but presumably one of the libraries it
uses does. I don't know of any way to find this dependency or the
compiler options that are needed automatically with autoconf/automake.