Porting of gcc 4.2.3 to AIX

Porting of gcc 4.2.3 to AIX

[Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy)]

Hi All

I was able to go further from the last time on compiling gcc 4.2.3 on AIX 5.3. However, I get the following error and the make aborts

xgcc: error trying to exec '/cots/gnu/gcc-4.2.3/host-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/gcc/as': execv: No such file or directory

"as" is present and is a shell script calling /usr/bin/as. When I try to execute the above line from command line too I get the same error. I am running this in bash and using the AIX native as  which is in /usr/bin/as

Any ideas as to why this should happen? Appreciate your inputs and advice.

With Regards

Vardhan

Re: Porting of gcc 4.2.3 to AIX

[Andrew Haley]

Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy) wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I was able to go further from the last time on compiling gcc 4.2.3 on AIX 5.3. However, I get the following error and the make aborts
> 
> xgcc: error trying to exec '/cots/gnu/gcc-4.2.3/host-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/gcc/as': execv: No such file or directory
> 
> "as" is present and is a shell script calling /usr/bin/as. When I try to execute the above line from command line too I get the same error. I am running this in bash and using the AIX native as  which is in /usr/bin/as
> 
> Any ideas as to why this should happen? Appreciate your inputs and advice.

You ask many questions but you never reply to anything anyone says to you.
I'm wondering why anyone bothers to help you.  This will be the last time
I try to do so.

Look at the very first line of as.  What is it?  Is that file present?

Andrew.

RE: Porting of gcc 4.2.3 to AIX

[Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy)]

Hi Andrew

My sincere apologizes for not sending mail back. Will do so henceforth. I do reply back to the person sending me the mail, but sometimes I do miss out. I will ensure that send mail on  what I find etc to all from now.


With Regards

Vardhan

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Haley [mailto:aph@redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 7:54 AM
To: Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy)
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Porting of gcc 4.2.3 to AIX


Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy) wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I was able to go further from the last time on compiling gcc 4.2.3 on AIX 5.3. However, I get the following error and the make aborts
> 
> xgcc: error trying to exec '/cots/gnu/gcc-4.2.3/host-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/gcc/as': execv: No such file or directory
> 
> "as" is present and is a shell script calling /usr/bin/as. When I try to execute the above line from command line too I get the same error. I am running this in bash and using the AIX native as  which is in /usr/bin/as
> 
> Any ideas as to why this should happen? Appreciate your inputs and advice.

You ask many questions but you never reply to anything anyone says to you.
I'm wondering why anyone bothers to help you.  This will be the last time
I try to do so.

Look at the very first line of as.  What is it?  Is that file present?

Andrew.

Re: Porting of gcc 4.2.3 to AIX

[Mihai Donțu]

On Friday 18 July 2008, Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy) wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I was able to go further from the last time on compiling gcc 4.2.3 on AIX
> 5.3. However, I get the following error and the make aborts
>
> xgcc: error trying to exec
> '/cots/gnu/gcc-4.2.3/host-powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0/gcc/as': execv: No such
> file or directory
>
> "as" is present and is a shell script calling /usr/bin/as. When I try to
> execute the above line from command line too I get the same error. I am
> running this in bash and using the AIX native as  which is in /usr/bin/as
>
> Any ideas as to why this should happen? Appreciate your inputs and advice.

I have never used an AIX, but on Linux you can get this error if the binary 
has an invalid dynamic linker. Eg:

# cat a.c
static const char v[] __attribute__((section(".interp"))) 
= "/lib/libfoo.so.2";

int main( void )
{
        return 0;
}

# gcc -fPIC -shared a.c -o liba.so
# ./liba.so
bash: ./liba.so: No such file or directory

As to how could this happen, beats me. :)

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