All,
I was wondering - what's the current status of the gcc compiler chain on
AIX?
I need to build a bunch of open source tools on AIX, but I see from
the following site:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnu.html
'You cannot use the GNU linker on AIX as this will cause
incorrectly linked binaries. By default, the AIX linker is
used when using GCC on AIX. You should only use the default
AIX linker.'
which would be fine if the AIX linker works, but I'm getting segmentation
faults when compiling perl out of the box, using the gcc-4.1.0 compiler
provided.. I'm wondering if its the compiler, the linker, or both..
Anyways, if anybody is interested in helping tracking this down, I'd
be more than happy to provide compilation logs, etc. Is there someone
who maintains the AIX port?
Ed
(ps - if I can't get ld to work with gcc, my guess is that it's
going to be very painful to compile the freeware packages on AIX
that are needed, considering that half of them expect gnu ld flags,
not native ones... so I'm hoping that someone has gotten gnu ld to
work out there.
)
