Re: AIX results

[Pádraig Brady]

On 22/12/17 05:30, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Follow-up on AIX/Power8 build:

> 
> The following command did work to build 64bit binaries:
>      ./configure CFLAGS=-maix64 LDFLAGs=-maix64 AR="ar -X64"
> 
> The AR is required, otherwise creating libcoreutils.a fails with:
> ===
> ar: 0707-126 lib/vasprintf.o is not valid with the current object file mode.
> Use the -X option to specify the desired object mode.
> ===
> 
> With using this command compilation succeeds, and few tests fail:
>    FAIL: tests/misc/help-version
>    FAIL: tests/misc/shred-remove
>    FAIL: tests/misc/stdbuf
>    FAIL: tests/install/basic-1
>    FAIL: tests/mkdir/p-3
>    ERROR: tests/tail-2/pipe-f
>    FAIL: tests/touch/trailing-slash
> Full log attached.
> 
> 
> Also, the other alternative of accepting 32bit time also worked:
>     TIME_T_32_BIT_OK=yes ./configure
> With this command, the same tests still fail (log attached).
> 
> 
> I wonder if this is worth mentioning in the README
> (which has two sections about building on HPUX and OSF/1).

Yes very good point.
Proposed docs attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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