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Re: Compileing egcs-1.1b under AIX 4.1.5 fails
>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Mueller <matthias@ica1.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
Matthias> Are you sure you made a "make bootstrap"? It should set
Matthias> the required bigtoc flag for the linker. It may also be
Matthias> necessary to apply the following PTF: I have just
Matthias> discovered that an update to the AIX linker was released
Matthias> in mid-March specifically to address the failure
Matthias> encountered by GCC when using -bbigtoc linker option. I
Matthias> tested it this morning and it solves the failure on an
Matthias> AIX 4.1.5 system that I was able to use.
Matthias> The update is PTF U455193 for APAR IX75823
Matthias> available from service.boulder.ibm.com.
Matthias> I just installed egcs 1.1 on AIX 4.1.5 and it worked
Matthias> perfectly.
Yup, I forgot make bootstrap - out of habit as most GNU configure
software is ./configure; make; make test/check/install. In fact many a
time I've installed agcs using make (without bootstrap), again because
I forget.
Thanks for the help though,
Adrian