Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: AIX: gettext fails

[Marshall McMullen]

*sigh*. Yeah, this is  a real mess.  I wish I understood more about it
so I could help figure things out. About all I can do at this point is
test out anything you come up with.  Please let me know if there is
anything else I can do to help out.

Thanks!

On 5/4/07, Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner@×××××××.at> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:45 -0500, Marshall McMullen wrote:
> > I'm sure I'm missing some other patches and some other details here,
> > but I tried applying the patch provided above, and then emerging
> > gettext, and it still fails with:
>
> Even if you had the patch to get it installed without errors, it will
> not work, because the binaries will not find their installed sharedlibs
> correctly.
>
> This is a libtool problem, probably fixed with vanilla libtool-1.5.23b,
> but definitively not with vanilla libtool-1.5.22, although there are
> patches out (and applied in gentoo) for 1.5.22 IIRC.
>
> Now there are two ways to fix gettext:
>
> 1) completely re-libtoolize gettext with libtool-1.5.23b (currently it
> uses libtool-1.5.22), or fixed libtool-1.5.22. But this may be tricky.
>
> 2) create more patches like 'aixrtl' and 'instprefixlink' for
> 'elibtoolize', to fix gettext-shipped libtool-things (ltmain.sh,
> configure) directly.
> This also will be useful for other packages with similar problems.
>
> So we really want 2), and 1) _may_ be of some help to gain 2).
>
> This is what I call "aix libtool hell"...
>
> /haubi/
> >
> > powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-gcc:
> > /home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/libgettextlib.a: No such file or
> > directory
> > libtool: install: error: relink `libgettextsrc.la' with the above
> > command before installing it
> > make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
> > make[4]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools/src'
> > make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools/src'
> > make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools/src'
> > make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools'
> > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> >
> > Are there other patches I need to have applied perhaps ?
> >
> > On 5/3/07, Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner@×××××××.at> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 10:06 -0500, Marshall McMullen wrote:
> > > > Ah, I figured that was what was going on. I'll have to go back and
> > > > re-read your email about aix-libtool hell :-).
> > >
> > > Err, the previous was "aix dll hell", this one is "aix libtool hell",
> > > what I meant to repeat was "aix ... hell" ;)
> > >
> > > Grobian, attached is a patch for things like that:
> > >
> > > eclass/ELT-patches/instprefixlink/1.5.20:
> > >   The patch to fix package-shipped libtool.
> > >
> > > eclass/toolchain-funcs.eclass
> > >   This one is still not in svn yet.
> > >
> > > eclass/libtool.eclass
> > >   Hunk#1: use above libtool-patch
> > >   Hunk#2: still not in svn yet, required for aixrtl.
> > >
> > > sys-devel/gettext/gettext-0.16.1.ebuild
> > >   Need to elibtoolize the package.
> > >
> > > Package with the same problem might be fixed with 'elibtoolize' now.
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for taking the time to reply and update me on it, I aprpeciate it.
> > >
> > > Sooner or later I'd have done it anyway - was in hope that someone else
> > > might have done it before me ;). I was just focused on linux recently,
> > > where our first packages are done so far to give prefix to my first
> > > colleagues :)
> > >
> > > /haubi/
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm just glad I was able to get the new vim installed finally,
> > > > vertical split is really cool :-).
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > On 5/2/07, Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner@×××××××.at> wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:42 -0500, Marshall McMullen wrote:
> > > > > > Anyone else making any progress on this yet? I think this is the last
> > > > > > package I am unable to install on AIX from system.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any thoughts appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > > In danger of repeating myself: "Welcome to aix-libtool hell"
> > > > >
> > > > > This is the main reason why I do not use DESTDIR on aix in
> > > > > prefix-launcher (aka. toolsbox).
> > > > >
> > > > > We will see many packages having this problem, the next one will be
> > > > > dev-libs/libxml2, a prerequisite of subversion.
> > > > >
> > > > > They all have the same libtool problem, but I'm unsure if there is
> > > > > already a fix out there - maybe libtool-1.5.23b ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Grobian: while trying to 'elibtoolize' gettext, I had to apply attached
> > > > > patch to eclass/libtool.eclass, based on my previous patch for
> > > > > aix-dllhell.
> > > > >
> > > > > This does not fix the gettext-problem, but a bug in libtool.eclass only.
> > > > >
> > > > > /haubi/
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 4/20/07, Marshall McMullen <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > I've emerged libiconv now, but when trying to emerge gettext I get:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-gcc:
> > > > > > > /home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/libgettextlib.a: No such file or
> > > > > > > directory
> > > > > > > libtool: install: error: relink `libgettextsrc.la' with the above
> > > > > > > command before installing it
> > > > > > > make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
> > > > > > > make[4]: Leaving directory
> > > > > > > `/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools/src'
> > > > > > > make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> > > > > > > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > > > > > > `/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools/src'
> > > > > > > make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
> > > > > > > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > > > > > > `/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools/src'
> > > > > > > make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> > > > > > > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > > > > > > `/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools'
> > > > > > > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > Marshall McMullen
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> > > > > > > mjmcmullen@×××××.net
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> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > In France, there's a popular saying about Linux that essentially translates as:
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> > > >
> > > > In France, there's a popular saying about Linux that essentially translates as:
> > > > "Linux? You can get a less powerful system, but it will cost you more."
> > >
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> > Marshall McMullen
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> > mjmcmullen@×××××.net
> > mdmcmullen@××××××.com
> >
> > In France, there's a popular saying about Linux that essentially translates as:
> > "Linux? You can get a less powerful system, but it will cost you more."
>
>
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