Re: newbie help on AIX 5.2 build

[Eli Ben-Shoshan <linkages at ufl dot edu>]

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