As promised in my report last night, I did a second build of textutils-2.0.21 on IBM AIX 4.3 with the native cc compiler, instead of gcc. This gave a different build failure:
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/uufs/inscc.utah.edu/common/home/mthnhb/ppc/local/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/uufs/inscc.utah.edu/common/home/mthnhb/ppc/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/uufs/inscc.utah.edu/common/home/mthnhb/ppc/local/lib\" -DIN_LIBINTL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -g plural.c "plural.y", line 260.1: 1506-343 (S) Redeclaration of __gettextlex differs from previous declaration on line 69 of "plural.y". "plural.y", line 260.1: 1506-381 (I) The type "const unsigned char**" of parameter 2 in the prototype declaration is not compatible with the corresponding parameter type "unsigned char**" in the nonprototype declaration. make[2]: *** [plural.o] Error 1 Once again, I restarted with "make -i" to see if there were any more failures. There are a few more: cc -DLIBDIR=\"/uufs/inscc.utah.edu/common/home/mthnhb/ppc/local/lib\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I. -I../intl -g -c `test -f strnlen.c || echo './'`strnlen.c "strnlen.c", line 51.1: 1506-343 (S) Redeclaration of strnlen differs from previous declaration on line 222 of "/usr/include/string.h". "strnlen.c", line 51.1: 1506-050 (I) Return type "unsigned long" in redeclaration is not compatible with the previous return type "int". "strnlen.c", line 51.1: 1506-377 (I) The type "unsigned long" of parameter 2 differs from the previous type "int". make[3]: [strnlen.o] Error 1 (ignored) cc -g -o cksum cksum.o ../intl/libintl.a -liconv ../lib/libfetish.a ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .gettextparse__ ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information. make[2]: [cksum] Error 8 (ignored) [that link failure happens many times] cc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/uufs/inscc.utah.edu/common/home/mthnhb/ppc/local/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../lib -I../intl -g -c ` test -f fmt.c || echo './'`fmt.c "fmt.c", line 137.10: 1506-159 (E) Bit-field type specified for paren is not valid. Type unsigned assumed. "fmt.c", line 138.10: 1506-159 (E) Bit-field type specified for period is not valid. Type unsigned assumed. "fmt.c", line 139.10: 1506-159 (E) Bit-field type specified for punct is not valid. Type unsigned assumed. "fmt.c", line 140.10: 1506-159 (E) Bit-field type specified for final is not valid. Type unsigned assumed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils