tcl/tk on AIX

[Bruno Haible]

On AIX 7.1, the creation of the poke-gui command fails:

Making check in gui
        /bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC    --mode=link gcc -maix64 -Wall  -g -O2  
-L/home/haible/prefix64/lib -o poke-gui poke_gui-poke-gui.o 
-bI:/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.exp -bI:/usr/lib/libtk8.4.exp  ../gl-gui/libgnu.la 
libtool: link: gcc -maix64 -Wall -g -O2 -o poke-gui poke_gui-poke-gui.o 
-bI:/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.exp -bI:/usr/lib/libtk8.4.exp  
-L/home/haible/prefix64/lib ../gl-gui/.libs/libgnu.a -lintl -liconv -lpthread 
-Wl,-blibpath:/home/haible/prefix64/lib:/home/haible/prefix64/lib:/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0/8.3.0/ppc64:/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0/8.3.0:/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0/8.3.0/../../..:/usr/lib:/lib
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bI:/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.exp'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-bI:/usr/lib/libtk8.4.exp'
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

The cause is that the config.status contains

$ grep tcl8 config.status 
S["TCL_LIB_SPEC"]="-bI:/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.exp"
S["TCL_LIB_FILE"]="libtcl8.4.so"
S["TCL_SRC_DIR"]="/opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD/tcltk-8.4.7/tcl8.4.7"

$ grep tk8 config.status 
S["TK_LIB_SPEC"]="-bI:/usr/lib/libtk8.4.exp"
S["TK_LIB_FILE"]="libtk8.4.so"
S["TK_SRC_DIR"]="/opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD/tcltk-8.4.7/tk8.4.7"

These -b... options work only with xlc, not with gcc.

Where do these values come from? Find attached the config.log.

Bruno

config.log.gz
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