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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:52:26
Message-Id: 20071119165208.GA24703@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2 by Marshall McMullen
1 On 19-11-2007 16:47:58 +0000, Marshall McMullen wrote:
2 > well, I manually removed "--with-shared" from the ebuild's
3 > econf line for ncurses, and it is now building just fine....
4 >
5 > Maybe we should fix this in the tree for other AIX 5.2 installs ?
6
7 Could you check if 5.5 has the same problem please?
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11 > ----- Original Message -----
12 > From: "Marshall McMullen" <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com>
13 > To: "gentoo-alt" <gentoo-alt@l.g.o>
14 > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 10:24:41 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
15 > Subject: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2
16 >
17 > I was trying to emerge ncurses on an older AIX 5.2 system, and it fails with the following:
18 >
19 >
20 > checking if rpath option should be used... no
21 > checking if release/abi version should be used for shared libs... auto
22 > checking which powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-gcc option to use... -fPIC
23 > configure: error: Shared libraries are not supported in this version
24 >
25 > !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
26 > !!! /home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2/work/narrowc/config.log
27 > *
28 > * ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 failed.
29 > * Call stack:
30 > * ebuild.sh, line 1604: Called dyn_compile
31 > * ebuild.sh, line 942: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
32 > * ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile
33 > * ncurses-5.6-r2.ebuild, line 53: Called do_compile
34 > * 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'
35 > * ebuild.sh, line 538: Called die
36 > * The specific snippet of code:
37 > * die "econf failed"
38 > * The die message:
39 > * econf failed
40 >
41 >
42 > Has anyone seen this problem on AIX 5.2 or others ? This problem did not happen on AIX 5.3.
43 >
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Re: [gentoo-alt] [AIX] ncurses fails on AIX 5.2 Marshall McMullen <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com>