collect2: /usr/lib/libc.a: not an import library - help

collect2: /usr/lib/libc.a: not an import library - help

[Danielle Ballard]

I trying to run the configure program for Socks. I can not get the configure
program to run successfully. The system is AIX 4.3.2 with gcc version
2.7.2.2.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  I am not knowledgeable
about c compilers.
I have found several references the talk about the problem but no clear cut
solutions.


****Here is what /usr/lib/libc.a look like ----
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 19 May 15 1999  /usr/lib/libc.a -> /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a

****ls -l /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a
-r-xr-xr-x   2 bin      bin      5940562 Nov 27 22:57 /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a

****Here is the config.log
more config.log                                             
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while

running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:565: checking for gcc2
configure:595: checking for gcc
configure:672: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works
configure:686: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5
collect2: /usr/lib/libc.a: not an import library
configure: failed program was:
#line 682 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
main(){return(0);}


Thank you,
		Danielle C. Ballard

Sparks Regional Medical Center
AIX Administrator

email:    dballard@sparks.org

Re: collect2: /usr/lib/libc.a: not an import library - help

[Alexandre Oliva]

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On Mar 30, 2000, Danielle Ballard <dballard@sparks.org> wrote:

> The system is AIX 4.3.2 with gcc version 2.7.2.2.

> collect2: /usr/lib/libc.a: not an import library

Why don't you try a newer release of GCC?  This is jsut a wild guess,
but it may be that 2.7.2.2 didn't support the library archive format
of AIX 4.3.

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Re: collect2: /usr/lib/libc.a: not an import library - help

[Alexandre Oliva]

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On Mar 30, 2000, Danielle Ballard <dballard@sparks.org> wrote:

> The system is AIX 4.3.2 with gcc version 2.7.2.2.

> collect2: /usr/lib/libc.a: not an import library

Why don't you try a newer release of GCC?  This is jsut a wild guess,
but it may be that 2.7.2.2 didn't support the library archive format
of AIX 4.3.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva    Enjoy Guaraná, see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company        aoliva@{redhat, cygnus}.com
Free Software Developer and Evangelist    CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp
oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}   Write to mailing lists, not to me

collect2: /usr/lib/libc.a: not an import library - help

[Danielle Ballard]

I trying to run the configure program for Socks. I can not get the configure
program to run successfully. The system is AIX 4.3.2 with gcc version
2.7.2.2.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  I am not knowledgeable
about c compilers.
I have found several references the talk about the problem but no clear cut
solutions.


****Here is what /usr/lib/libc.a look like ----
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 19 May 15 1999  /usr/lib/libc.a -> /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a

****ls -l /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a
-r-xr-xr-x   2 bin      bin      5940562 Nov 27 22:57 /usr/ccs/lib/libc.a

****Here is the config.log
more config.log                                             
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while

running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:565: checking for gcc2
configure:595: checking for gcc
configure:672: checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works
configure:686: gcc -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5
collect2: /usr/lib/libc.a: not an import library
configure: failed program was:
#line 682 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
main(){return(0);}


Thank you,
		Danielle C. Ballard

Sparks Regional Medical Center
AIX Administrator

email:    dballard@sparks.org