Re: build problems on IBM AIX machine

[Charlie Zender <zender at uci dot edu>]

Brian Gough wrote:
> Charlie Zender writes:
>  > I tried to build gsl-0.9 on the IBM AIX with the native xlc compiler.
>  > ..
>  > With these options, the compiling seemed to go well until I began
>  > to see error messages related to the naming of libraries and object
>  > modules. Libraries had suffixes like .al or .la (rather than .a)
>  > and object files had suffixes like .lo (rather than .o), e.g.,
> 
> Thanks for the bug report.
> 
> First question, does it work with gcc?  If so, then I would say it is
> a libtool bug w.r.t xlc.


gcc is not installed on this machine. unfortunately installing gcc on
it is not an option for me, so i tried to build gsl with the native
compilers.


> You could try the latest version of libtool and see if that fixes the
> problem.  You will need to get the gsl sources from CVS and run
> ./autogen.sh with the new libtool.  If it still does not work then
> report this to bug-libtool@gnu.org.
> 

ok

> Brian
> 
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> 
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