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From: Marshall McMullen <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt <gentoo-alt@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:24:57
Message-Id: 4212852.12231195489481591.JavaMail.root@ghostwheel.zentire.com
1 I was trying to emerge ncurses on an older AIX 5.2 system, and it fails with the following:
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4 checking if rpath option should be used... no
5 checking if release/abi version should be used for shared libs... auto
6 checking which powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-gcc option to use... -fPIC
7 configure: error: Shared libraries are not supported in this version
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9 !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
10 !!! /home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2/work/narrowc/config.log
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12 * ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 failed.
13 * Call stack:
14 * ebuild.sh, line 1604: Called dyn_compile
15 * ebuild.sh, line 942: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
16 * ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile
17 * ncurses-5.6-r2.ebuild, line 53: Called do_compile
18 * 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'
19 * ebuild.sh, line 538: Called die
20 * The specific snippet of code:
21 * die "econf failed"
22 * The die message:
23 * econf failed
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26 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 Marshall McMullen <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com>