Re: g++ 3.2.x build problem

["Val Nets" <val_nets at hotmail dot com>]

From: "David Edelsohn" <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
>
> Please do not use GNU Binutils on AIX.
>
> David

Any paticular reason why? I mean, I used them with no problems for quite
some time now, up to AIX 4.3 / gcc 3.0.4.
Besides, GNUpro, for instance, looks like using the same basic GNU utilities
as there are in Binutils (well, maybe I'm wrong). On the other hand, they
declare support only up to AIX 4.3, and I'm on AIX 5.1 now.
I tried native AIX utilities as well, there were problems -- e.g. ld tends
to get "TOC overflow" issue when building big libraries -- I had to rerun it
manually with -bbigtoc.

Anyway, I'm going to let it finish with Binutils now, it's already on the
stage of configuring subdirs of libstdc++, which take a lot of time on
AIX -- you know, that stage of:
...............
checking for __builtin_cosf declaration... yes
checking for __builtin_cosf linkage... no
checking for __builtin_cos declaration... yes
checking for __builtin_cos linkage... no
checking for __builtin_cosl declaration... yes
checking for __builtin_cosl linkage... no
checking for sin in -lm... yes
checking for isinf declaration... yes
checking for isinf... yes
checking for isnan declaration... yes
checking for isnan... yes
checking for finite declaration... yes
checking for finite...
...............
and so forth, and it's REALLY slow and goes like this forever, I don't know
why. Doesn't look this way on Linux, for example. I remember the first time
I ran into this -- I thought I'm getting an infinite loop ;-)
So I'd rather not stop it now if I want to see some results today.

Thanks,
Val.