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From: Marshall McMullen <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:18:17
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In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2 by Marshall McMullen
1 OK, as you suspected, ncurses 5.5 compiles fine on AIX 5.2.... So at least I'm moving on now :).
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3 Many thanks!
4 ----- Original Message -----
5 From: "Marshall McMullen" <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com>
6 To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
7 Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:06:38 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
8 Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2
9
10 Yep, trying it now. In any event, my victory was very short lived as it
11 later fails compilation due to missing declarations:
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13 /home/mdmcmull/plauncher/prefix-launcher-1rc.20071117/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/cstdio:109: error: '::fgetpos' has not been declared
14 /home/mdmcmull/plauncher/prefix-launcher-1rc.20071117/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/cstdio:111: error: '::fopen' has not been declared
15 /home/mdmcmull/plauncher/prefix-launcher-1rc.20071117/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/cstdio:116: error: '::freopen' has not been declared
16 /home/mdmcmull/plauncher/prefix-launcher-1rc.20071117/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/4.1.1/../../../../include/c++/4.1.1/cstdio:119: error: '::fsetpos' has not been declared
17 make[1]: *** [../objects/cursesmain.o] Error 1
18 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
19 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2/work/narrowc/c++'
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21 Anyhow, trying ncurses 5.5 on AIX 5.2 now, and will report.
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24 ----- Original Message -----
25 From: "Fabian Groffen" <grobian@g.o>
26 To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
27 Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 10:52:08 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
28 Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2
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30 On 19-11-2007 16:47:58 +0000, Marshall McMullen wrote:
31 > well, I manually removed "--with-shared" from the ebuild's
32 > econf line for ncurses, and it is now building just fine....
33 >
34 > Maybe we should fix this in the tree for other AIX 5.2 installs ?
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36 Could you check if 5.5 has the same problem please?
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40 > ----- Original Message -----
41 > From: "Marshall McMullen" <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com>
42 > To: "gentoo-alt" <gentoo-alt@l.g.o>
43 > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 10:24:41 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
44 > Subject: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2
45 >
46 > I was trying to emerge ncurses on an older AIX 5.2 system, and it fails with the following:
47 >
48 >
49 > checking if rpath option should be used... no
50 > checking if release/abi version should be used for shared libs... auto
51 > checking which powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-gcc option to use... -fPIC
52 > configure: error: Shared libraries are not supported in this version
53 >
54 > !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
55 > !!! /home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2/work/narrowc/config.log
56 > *
57 > * ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 failed.
58 > * Call stack:
59 > * ebuild.sh, line 1604: Called dyn_compile
60 > * ebuild.sh, line 942: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
61 > * ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile
62 > * ncurses-5.6-r2.ebuild, line 53: Called do_compile
63 > * ncurses-5.6-r2.ebuild, line 77: Called econf '--libdir=/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib' '--with-terminfo-dirs=/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/etc/terminfo:/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/share/terminfo' '--with-shared' '--enable-overwrite' '--without-debug' '--without-profile' '--without-gpm' '--disable-termcap' '--enable-symlinks' '--with-rcs-ids' '--with-manpage-format=normal' '--enable-const' '--enable-colorfgbg' '--enable-echo' '--enable-warnings' '--without-assertions' '--with-leaks' '--without-expanded' '--with-macros' '--without-trace' '--with-chtype=long' '--with-mmask-t=long' '--disable-ext-colors' '--disable-ext-mouse'
64 > * ebuild.sh, line 538: Called die
65 > * The specific snippet of code:
66 > * die "econf failed"
67 > * The die message:
68 > * econf failed
69 >
70 >
71 > Has anyone seen this problem on AIX 5.2 or others ? This problem did not happen on AIX 5.3.
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Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2 Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>