Re: building GNU gettext on AIX

[Arsen Arsenović]

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> David Edelsohn and Richard Biener wrote:
>> > >   * GCC can pass --enable-threads=isoc, to avoid the libpthread 
>> > > dependency
>> > >     on AIX ≥ 7.2.
>> >
>> > Hmm, would that option work everywhere, though?  Or would we have to
>> > wire up configury to detect which flag to use?  If so, what would it
>> > look like.
>
> --enable-threads=isoc should only be used where needed, i.e. on AIX 7.2
> or higher. Yes, this needs a configure test.
>
>> I'd highly recommend the in-tree gettext to be built with thread
>> support _disabled_,
>> only a static library built and never installed (but linked statically
>> into the host binaries).
>
> As long as this static libintl.a gets never installed (but linked statically
> into the host binaries), that's perfectly fine.
>
> It only needs a fixed gettext.m4, to deal with the bug that David Edelsohn
> noticed on AIX (but that exists on macOS as well). [1]

That should always work for us, then (the only case in which the GCC
build system sets up flags for gettext is when building it in-tree, in
which case we already want a --disable-shared build).

If that library gets installed, then, so far, it is unintentional.  I'll
check that (as well as the docs targets that Eric Gallager mentioned on
IRC) tonight.

> Bruno
>
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2023-11/msg00164.html


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Arsen Arsenović

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