Re: texinfo-7.2.90 on AIX

Gavin Smith wrote:
> Could you please provide the error messages from when you tried it without
> PERL_EXT_CC set?  Did it fail due to a non-existent compiler, or for another
> reason?

If PERL_EXT_CC isn't set, it apparently uses $CC instead. I get the same error:

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gmake[4]: Entering directory '/home/haible/texinfo-7.2.90/build-64-gcc/tta/C'
/bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -maix64 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../tta/C  -I../../../tta/C/main -I../../../tta/C -DDATADIR=\"/home/haible/prefix64/share\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/home/haible/prefix64/etc\" -I../../../tta/gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib -I/home/haible/prefix64/include -Wall -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -qlanglvl=extc99 -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES   -g -O2 -MT main/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.lo -MD -MP -MF main/.deps/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.Tpo -c -o main/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.lo `test -f 'main/xs_utils.c' || echo '../../../tta/C/'`main/xs_utils.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -maix64 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../tta/C -I../../../tta/C/main -I../../../tta/C -DDATADIR=\"/home/haible/prefix64/share\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/home/haible/prefix64/etc\" -I../../../tta/gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib -I/home/haible/prefix64/include -Wall -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -qlanglvl=extc99 -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -g -O2 -MT main/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.lo -MD -MP -MF main/.deps/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.Tpo -c ../../../tta/C/main/xs_utils.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o main/.libs/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.o
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qmaxmem=-1'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qnoansialias'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qlanglvl=extc99'
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-q32'
gmake[4]: *** [Makefile:3600: main/libperlcall_utils_la-xs_utils.lo] Error 1
gmake[4]: Leaving directory '/home/haible/texinfo-7.2.90/build-64-gcc/tta/C'
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> It would also be helpful to see the output from the configure test for whether
> XS modules work.

This configure test produced the answer "no", because it attempted to use the
'xlc_r' compiler for this task:

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checking whether we can build Perl extension (XS) modules... 
	rm -f  TestXS.c
	rm -rf .libs _libs
	rm -f  TestXS.la
rm -f ./so_locations
	rm -f *.o
	rm -f *.lo
Target "clean" is up to date.
	/bin/sh '/home/haible/texinfo-7.2.90/tta/perl/CheckXS/build-aux/missing' xsubpp -typemap /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.28.1/ExtUtils/typemap ../../../../tta/perl/CheckXS/TestXS.xs > TestXS.xsc && mv TestXS.xsc TestXS.c
	/bin/sh ./libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile xlc_r -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"GNU\ Texinfo\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"texinfo\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"7.2.90\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"GNU\ Texinfo\ 7.2.90\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/\" -DPACKAGE=\"texinfo\" -DVERSION=\"7.2.90\" -DHAVE_STDIO_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -I. -I../../../../tta/perl/CheckXS  -DXS_VERSION=\"7.2.90\" -I/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.28.1/aix-thread-multi/CORE  -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -qlanglvl=extc99 -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES    -
 MT TestXS_la-TestXS.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/TestXS_la-TestXS.Tpo -c -o TestXS_la-TestXS.lo `test -f 'TestXS.c' || echo '../../../../tta/perl/CheckXS/'`TestXS.c
libtool: compile:  xlc_r "-DPACKAGE_NAME=\"GNU Texinfo\"" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"texinfo\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"7.2.90\" "-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"GNU Texinfo 7.2.90\"" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/\" -DPACKAGE=\"texinfo\" -DVERSION=\"7.2.90\" -DHAVE_STDIO_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -I. -I../../../../tta/perl/CheckXS -DXS_VERSION=\"7.2.90\" -I/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.28.1/aix-thread-multi/CORE -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -qlanglvl=extc99 -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -MT TestXS_la-TestXS.lo -MD -MP 
 -MF .deps/TestXS_la-TestXS.Tpo -c TestXS.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/TestXS_la-TestXS.o
xlc_r: 1501-208 (S) command option D is missing a subargument
make: The error code from the last command is 1.


Stop.
checking whether we can build Perl extension (XS) modules... no
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Find attached the log files.

Bruno