Re: [gentoo-alt] AIX5.3 prefix bootstrap gcc-4.2.4 failure

[Michael Haubenwallner]

Hi Benda,

heroxbd@×××××.com wrote:
> Dear guys and girls,
>
> I have successfully bootstraped Gentoo Prefix on some old Fedora Core 3
> machine on which I am only a normal user. I am very happy. Gentoo rocks!
> Alt rocks! Prefix rocks!

Thank you!

> Now I am locking my target on some AIX machines. But the problems come
> up in an early stage.
>
> First after STFW, I found I need to use prefix-launcher on
> sf.net. QUESTION: is prefix-launcher an official part of gentoo-prefix?
> I can see most recent svn ci's. why is it hosted on sf instead of
> gentoo?

Well, it is not "official" part of Gentoo Prefix, but it is a
de-facto requirement to bootstrap on AIX and HP-UX (maybe others).
It _may_ work to bootstrap without prefix-launcher there,
but it is a lot harder than on Linux and Solaris fex.
The reason it is on sf is that the "prefix"-idea was born before
"Gentoo Prefix" as the implementation.

> But prefix-launcher fail wildly when it's compiling gcc-4.2.4.

This is interesting: I'm using prefix-launcher (checking out from svn,
not the release-tarball) on a weekly automated basis...

> I was frustrated to do make clean && make install on prefix-launcher
> again and again. Finally I realized I have to compile gcc-4.2.4 by
> myself.

Well, prefix-launcher itself does not support 'make clean',
just 'make install' (where 'make' has to be GNU-make).

> But there comes the linker problem:
>
> There are always some unresolved symbol issue in stage 3 of
> bootstrap. After another round of STFW, esp. on gcc bugzilla, I think it
> is some path issue on AIX linker. ld just couldn't find the right
> library to link against.
>
> Any hints and ideas are appreciated.
>
> I attach the latest command (cmd) and linking message (debug).

I'm going to look why/where these symbols are resolved from here...

/haubi/
-- 
Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level