gsl-1.2: build problem on IBM AIX 4.2, and a simple workaround

gsl-1.2: build problem on IBM AIX 4.2, and a simple workaround

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

The build of gsl-1.2 with gcc-2.95.3 on IBM RS/6000 AIX 4.2 failed
like this:

	gcc -shared -o .libs/libgsl.so.0  version.o ... -lm \
		-lc  ${wl}-berok -Wl,-bnoentry -Wl,-bexport:.libs/libgsl.exp  
	ld: 0711-781 ERROR: TOC overflow. TOC size: 72184	Maximum size: 65536
	collect2: ld returned 12 exit status

I restarted it with

	make LDFLAGS=-Wl,-bigtoc

and the make then succeeded, as did the validation tests and
installation.

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Re: gsl-1.2: build problem on IBM AIX 4.2, and a simple workaround

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 05:53:02PM -0700, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> The build of gsl-1.2 with gcc-2.95.3 on IBM RS/6000 AIX 4.2 failed
> like this:
> 
> 	gcc -shared -o .libs/libgsl.so.0  version.o ... -lm \
> 		-lc  ${wl}-berok -Wl,-bnoentry -Wl,-bexport:.libs/libgsl.exp  
> 	ld: 0711-781 ERROR: TOC overflow. TOC size: 72184	Maximum size: 65536
> 	collect2: ld returned 12 exit status

Another data point, I build GSL 1.2 with xlc (5.0) on AIX 4.3.2 and
didn't have this problem.

-- 
albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)

Re: gsl-1.2: build problem on IBM AIX 4.2, and a simple workaround

[Brian Gough]

Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:
 > The build of gsl-1.2 with gcc-2.95.3 on IBM RS/6000 AIX 4.2 failed
 > like this:
 > 	ld: 0711-781 ERROR: TOC overflow. TOC size: 72184 Maximum
 > size: 65536
 > 	collect2: ld returned 12 exit status
 > I restarted it with
 > 	make LDFLAGS=-Wl,-bigtoc
 > and the make then succeeded, as did the validation tests and
 > installation.

Thanks. Should now be noted in the INSTALL file.