I configured gettext with --disable-pthreads and libintl.a still contains
references to pthread_mutex_lock and pthread_mutex_unlock, which causes NLS
configure to fail on AIX.

How can this be corrected?

Thanks, David

libintl.a[libgnu_la-mbrtowc.o]:

         - U __lc_charmap

         - U errno

         - U .locale_encoding_classification

         - U .gl_get_mbtowc_lock

         - U .pthread_mutex_lock

         - U .mbtowc

         - U .pthread_mutex_unlock

         - U .abort

         0 T ._libintl_mbrtowc

      1952 D _libintl_mbrtowc

libintl.a[libgnu_la-setlocale_null.o]:

         - U .gl_get_setlocale_null_lock

         - U .pthread_mutex_lock

         - U .setlocale

         - U .strlen

         - U .memcpy

         - U .pthread_mutex_unlock

         - U .abort

         - U .strcpy

       336 T ._libintl_setlocale_null_r

       400 T ._libintl_setlocale_null

       812 D _libintl_setlocale_null_r

       824 D _libintl_setlocale_null

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 11:00 AM David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bruno,
>
> I have been able to tweak the environment and build gettext and libintl.
> With the updated libintl and environment, GCC reliably does not use NLS.
>
> The issue is that libintl utilizes pthreads.  AIX does not provide no-op
> pthread stubs in libc.  pthreads is an explicit multilib on AIX.
>
> It is great that gettext and libintl can be built thread-safe, but GCC
> (cc1, gcov, etc.) are not pthreads applications and are not built with
> pthreads.  Because libintl defaults to pthreads enabled, NLS cannot
> function in GCC on AIX by default.  The GCC included gettext was built in
> the default for GCC libraries, which was not pthreads enabled.
>
> I can rebuild libintl with --disable-pthreads and I will see if that
> works, but the default, distributed libintl library will not allow GCC to
> be built with NLS enabled.  And, no, GCC on AIX should not be forced to
> build with pthreads.
>
> This is a regression in NLS support in GCC.
>
> Thanks, David
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 5:39 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
>
>> David Edelsohn wrote:
>> > I am using my own install of GCC for a reason.
>>
>> I have built GNU gettext 0.22.3 in various configurations on the AIX 7.1
>> and 7.3 machines in the compilefarm, and haven't encountered issues with
>> 'max_align_t' nor with 'getpeername'. So, from my point of view, GNU
>> gettext
>> works fine on AIX with gcc and xlc (but not ibm-clang, which I haven't
>> tested).
>>
>> You will surely understand that I cannot test a release against a compiler
>> that exists only on your hard disk.
>>
>> The hint I gave you, based on the partial logs that you provided, is to
>> look at the configure test for intmax_t first.
>>
>> Bruno
>>
>>
>>
>>