On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 6:09 PM Arsen Arsenović <arsen@aarsen.me> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Arsen,
> >
> > Unfortunately this broke bootstrap on AIX.
> >
> > I had not seen this series of patches.
>
> I've added Bruno to CC as the libintl maintainer, to keep him in the
> loop.  Could you provide some extra information w.r.t. the failure mode?
>
> I'll try to investigate ASAP.
>
> In the meanwhile, does disabling NLS etc work?
>
> Thanks in advance, have a lovely night.
>
> GCC had been working on AIX with NLS, using "--with-included-gettext".
--disable-nls gets past the breakage, but GCC does not build for me on AIX
with NLS enabled.

A change in dependencies for GCC should have been announced and more widely
socialized in the GCC development mailing list, not just GCC patches
mailing list.

I have tried both the AIX Open Source libiconv and libgettext package, and
the ones that I previously built.  Both fail because GCC configure decides
to disable NLS, despite being requested, while libcpp is satisfied, so
tools in the gcc subdirectory don't link against libiconv and the build
fails.  With the included gettext, I was able to rely on a self-consistent
solution.

The current gettext-0.22.3 fails to build for me on AIX.

libcpp configure believes that NLS functions on AIX, but gcc configure
fails in its tests of gettext functionality, which leads to an inconsistent
configuration and build breakage.

Thanks, David