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
Courier/bin/nm -B -BCpg *.o | awk '{ if
((($2 == "T") || ($2 == "D") || ($2 == "B")) && (substr($3,1,1) !=
".")) { print $3 } }' | sort -u > libspread.exp
CourierxlC -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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