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Re: building GNU gettext on AIX
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Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: building GNU gettext on AIX |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:29:40 +0100 |
[CCing bug-gettext]
David Edelsohn wrote in
<https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2023-November/636558.html>:
> The current gettext-0.22.3 fails to build for me on AIX.
Here are some hints to get a successful build of GNU gettext on AIX:
1. Set the recommended environment variables before running configure:
https://gitlab.com/ghwiki/gnow-how/-/wikis/Platforms/Configuration
Namely:
* for a 32-bit build with gcc:
CC=gcc
CXX=g++
CPPFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include"
LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib"
unset AR NM
* for a 32-bit build with xlc:
CC="xlc -qthreaded -qtls"
CXX="xlC -qthreaded -qtls"
CPPFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include"
LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib"
unset AR NM
* for a 64-bit build with gcc:
CC="gcc -maix64"
CXX="g++ -maix64"
CPPFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include"
LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib"
AR="ar -X 64"; NM="nm -X 64 -B"
* for a 64-bit build with xlc:
CC="xlc -q64 -qthreaded -qtls"
CXX="xlC -q64 -qthreaded -qtls"
CPPFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include"
LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib"
AR="ar -X 64"; NM="nm -X 64 -B"
where $PREFIX is the value that you pass to the --prefix configure option.
Rationale: you can run into all sorts of problems if you choose compiler
options at random and haven't experience with compiler options on that
platform.
2. Don't use ibm-clang.
Rationale: It's broken.
3. Don't use -Wall with gcc 10.3.
Rationale: If you specify -Wall, gettext's configure adds -fanalyzer, which
has excessive memory requirements in gcc 10.x. In particular, on AIX, it
makes cc1 crash while compiling regex.c after it has consumed 1 GiB of RAM.
4. Avoid using a --prefix that contains earlier installations of the same
package.
Rationale: Because the AIX linker hardcodes directory names in shared
libraries, GNU libtool has a peculiar configuration on AIX. It ends up
mixing the in-build-tree libraries with the libraries in the install
locations, leading to all sorts of errors.
If you really need to use a --prefix that contains an earlier
installation of the same package:
- Either use --disable-shared and remove libgettextlib.a and
libgettextsrc.a from $PREFIX/lib before starting the build.
- Or use a mix of "make -k", "make -k install" and ad-hoc workarounds
that cannot be described in a general way.
Bruno
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX,
Bruno Haible <=
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, David Edelsohn, 2023/11/15
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, Bruno Haible, 2023/11/15
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, David Edelsohn, 2023/11/15
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, Bruno Haible, 2023/11/15
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, David Edelsohn, 2023/11/16
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, David Edelsohn, 2023/11/16
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, David Edelsohn, 2023/11/16
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, David Edelsohn, 2023/11/16
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, Bruno Haible, 2023/11/16
- Re: building GNU gettext on AIX, David Edelsohn, 2023/11/16