Re: newbie help on AIX 5.2 build

[Louis Burroughs <lburroug@aholdusa.com>]

Thanks, I tried bullfreeware but ran into troubles installing using smit 
(It wanted a user named "freeware"  or something like that for part of the 
install). I sent an issue to support, but did not recieve a reply.  I was 
also concerned about the version, UCLA is on gcc 3.3.4, but is built only 
up to AIX5.1, Bull is on gcc 3.3.2, but is built for AIX 5.2. 

Thanks for replying,
Louis M. Burroughs III, OCTO




Eli Ben-Shoshan <linkages@ufl.edu>
01/11/2005 11:01 AM
Please respond to ebs




 
        To:     lburroughs@charter.net
        cc:     gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org, lburroug@aholdusa.com
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        Subject:        Re: newbie help on AIX 5.2 build


Louis,
If this is the first time you are trying to get gcc to build on AIX and do 
not
have a lot of time, I would recommend you get the prebuild version of gcc 
from
bullfreeware.com:

http://www.bullfreeware.com/work_main.html

Enjoy.

lburroughs@charter.net wrote:
> I am trying to build C and C++ compilers on an IBM box running aix 5.2. 
I downloaded the gcc-3.3.4 and binutils binaries from UCLA to run my 
bootstrap build.  I ran configure --enable-threads=aix 
--enable-languages=c,c++ from my objdir.  I then ran make bootstrap-lean. 
After all of this runs for about a day and a half and then it fails with:
>
>
> checking for C compiler default output... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C 
compiled
>  programs.
> If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> See `config.log' for more details.
> make[1]: *** [configure-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/webapps/gnu'
> make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2
>
> I noticed that in the objdir there is a directory named gcc with my g++ 
compiler, but there is no gcc compiler in this directory, nor anywhere 
else under the objdir.  I am also not sure which config.log I should be 
looking for, there seems to be more than one.  Also I am not trying to 
cross compile (I don't think I am at least).
>
> I am trying to build this compiler, so I can compile sleepycats db on 
aix 5.2.  I may never use it again after this.  Is there an easier way?
>
> Thanks,
> Louis M. Burroughs III, OCTO
>
>