GCC 2.95.3 and later on AIX 5.2

GCC 2.95.3 and later on AIX 5.2

[Harald Milz]

Hi,

I am trying to compile gcc-2.95.3 on a new AIX 5.2 system, and I have a
problem with an unrecognized opcode. 

The machine is a RS64-II system (model 7044-170). The error message is,

_muldi3
/tmp/cc869kEn.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/cc869kEn.s:424: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `maskir'

Seems GNU as doesn't know about this instruction. The IBM as knows even
less... and throws a lot more unknown opcode errors. 

The system is recognized as rs6000-ibm-aix, and I ran configure without
options. binutils-2.13 are installed and in the path. The IBM compiler is
not yet installed but I'm downloading it right now. 

Do you have an idea what to do here? 

I can give you access to the machine if you like, just send me your public
SSH1 key. 

The machine is currently being used for porting am-utils to AIX 5.2 ...
Erez Zadok is working on it. 

PS GCC 3.2 and 3.1.1 produce even worse error messages, I'll post these
over the week end. If I can be of any more help porting the GCCs to AIX
5.2... 
 

Kind regards,
Harald Milz	

-- 
Don't hit a man when he's down -- kick him; it's easier.

Re: GCC 2.95.3 and later on AIX 5.2

[David Edelsohn]

> GCC 3.2 and 3.1.1 produce even worse error messages, I'll post these
> over the week end. If I can be of any more help porting the GCCs to AIX
> 5.2...

	GCC 2.95 does not support AIX 5.

	The native AIX tools (assembler, linker, binutils) are recommended
for use with GCC on AIX, not the GNU versions.

	GCC 3.2 config.guess returns "powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0" and
"rs6000-ibm-aix5.2.0.0" on the systems I test.  GCC 3.2 should use its AIX
5 (really AIX 5.1) configuration which will work on AIX 5.2.

David

Re: GCC 2.95.3 and later on AIX 5.2

[Harald Milz]

David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>> GCC 3.2 and 3.1.1 produce even worse error messages, I'll post these
>> over the week end. If I can be of any more help porting the GCCs to AIX
>> 5.2...

> 	GCC 2.95 does not support AIX 5.

Oh well it is on the Linux Affinity toolbox CD after all, and I managed to
build a native RPM package of the source on my AIX 5.2 gold code system. A
little patch was required to adjust some directories but it works fine. 

-- 
Basic is a high level languish.
APL is a high level anguish.

Re: GCC 2.95.3 and later on AIX 5.2

[David Edelsohn]

> GCC 3.2 and 3.1.1 produce even worse error messages, I'll post these
> over the week end. If I can be of any more help porting the GCCs to AIX
> 5.2...

	GCC 2.95 does not support AIX 5.

	The native AIX tools (assembler, linker, binutils) are recommended
for use with GCC on AIX, not the GNU versions.

	GCC 3.2 config.guess returns "powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0" and
"rs6000-ibm-aix5.2.0.0" on the systems I test.  GCC 3.2 should use its AIX
5 (really AIX 5.1) configuration which will work on AIX 5.2.

David