[Spread-users] Spread 3.17.1 on AIX

[Becky Alcorn]

Thank you very much for your prompt and excellent reply.  It all seems to be working now!

Thanks again,
Becky

Becky Alcorn
Unisolve Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
+61 3 9568 2005

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Theo Schlossnagle 
  To: Becky Alcorn 
  Cc: Theo Schlossnagle ; spread-users at lists.spread.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [Spread-users] Spread 3.17.1 on AIX



  On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 23:57 US/Eastern, Becky Alcorn wrote:


    Hi,

    I'm trying to install Spread 3.17.1 on an AIX 4.3 machine. The ./configure
    step works fine, however when I try make it dies with the messages below.
    Can anybody help me?


  Well, the easiest thing to do is to skip building the shared libraries. (don't build libspread.so and libtspread.so)

  Just drop libspread.so and libtspread.so from the TARGETS= line of the Makefile and install-libspread.so and install-libtspread.so from the install: line.



    cc -shared -o libspread.so alarm.lo events.lo memory.lo sp.lo -lnsl
    cc: 1501-218 file alarm.lo contains an incorrect file suffix
    cc: 1501-218 file events.lo contains an incorrect file suffix
    cc: 1501-218 file memory.lo contains an incorrect file suffix
    cc: 1501-218 file sp.lo contains an incorrect file suffix
    ld: 0706-012 The -h flag is not recognized.
    ld: 0706-012 The -a flag is not recognized.
    make: The error code from the last command is 255.


  building shared libraries on AIX is more complicated than on other modern unix system. You _may_ have better luck with a recent version of GNU ld.

  AIX requires symbol export tables to construct shared libraries (someone somewhere was too lazy to automate the most standard case of this) so you have to do a bit of work. If you are familiar with the compile, symbolize and link process, you may be able to manually link yourself up some shared libraries... Otherwise, I think the task may be too daunting.

  Maybe something like this:

  mkdir scratch
  cp alarm.lo events.lo memory.lo sp.lo scratch/
  cd scratch
  for i in *.lo
  do
  mv $i `echo $i | sed -e 's/\.lo/\.o/;'`
  done
  /bin/nm -B -BCpg *.o | awk '{ if ((($2 == "T") || ($2 == "D") || ($2 == "B")) && (substr($3,1,1) != ".")) { print $3 } }' | sort -u > libspread.exp
  xlC -o libspread.so -bnoentry -bexport:libspread.exp -G *.o -lnsl

  I don't have an AIX box to test that on, but something like that should work... I am sure you can accomplish the same thing with libtool, but that is a black art that I do not know.

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