Re: disable shared libs to build on AIX, Alpha

Re: disable shared libs to build on AIX, Alpha

[Brian Gough]

Charlie Zender writes:
 > Although I was unable to build libtool from scratch on our AIX
 > system, I did learn through trial and error that GSL 0.9 built
 > fine if I simply turned off the shareable library features, i.e.,

Right.  I'll try to make that more prominent in the installation
instructions. Thanks for pointing it out.

 > I also successfully built GSL 0.9 on our 8 processor compaq alpha
 > system. There, the shareable libraries built fine, but my executables 
 > could not link to them at run time, and died with a system error
 > "cannot map libgsl.so". 

Does it need 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH'
or have you tried that already?

disable shared libs to build on AIX, Alpha

[Charlie Zender]

Hi,

A few days ago I reported that building GSL 0.9 failed on AIX.
Brian Gough suggested that the problem was with libtool.
Although I was unable to build libtool from scratch on our AIX
system, I did learn through trial and error that GSL 0.9 built
fine if I simply turned off the shareable library features, i.e.,

babyblue.ucar.edu AIX 4.3.3:
setenv CC 'xlc'
setenv CFLAGS '-O -qmaxmem=8192'
./configure --disable-shared --disable-libtool-lock
make --jobs=1

works for me with AIX. 

I also successfully built GSL 0.9 on our 8 processor compaq alpha
system. There, the shareable libraries built fine, but my executables 
could not link to them at run time, and died with a system error
"cannot map libgsl.so". Once again, removing the shared libraries
did the trick, and the static libraries work fine.

prospect.ucar.edu ev6-dec-osf5.0 OSF1:
setenv CC 'cc'
setenv CFLAGS '-O2'
./configure --disable-shared

This suggests to me that some sort of installation hint be given to
user's of "exotic" systems that they try turning of the shared
libraries if GSL does not build or link correctly the first time.

Charlie
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