Re: AIX

[Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>]

Uli Link <ul.mcamafia@linkitup.de> writes:

> tom honermann schrieb:
>> On 2/11/2011 6:56 AM, Uli Link wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> If now it's possible to build libffi with XLC I would prefer this, but
>>> I'm not familar with PowerPC assembly language at all.
>> It is. I updated the test results wiki page
>> (http://www.moxielogic.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libffi_3.0.10) with
>> instructions for building on AIX with xlc for either 32-bit or 64-bit.
>> Note that I'm not able to run the test suite however since the test
>> suite appears to require gcc currently.
>
> Have found the source of error for spawning the bogus compiler short
> help during configure script:
> it's the test for -print-multi-os-directory
> Wrapping this GCC specific flag into
>
> if test "${GCC}" = "yes" ; then
>   multi_os_directory=`$CC -print-multi-os-directory`
>   case
>    ...
>   esac
> fi
>
> and this error is gone.
> I'm not familiar with the GNU autoconf tools, but this should be easy
> and safe to fix.

Thanks Uli.  I'll fix this.

AG