Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.5.90 pretest on AIX

[Gavin Smith]

On 1/5/19, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> On AIX 7.1, there are two problems:
>
> 1) Link errors:

> They are fixed through the attached patch. $(LIBTHREAD) is empty on
> most modern platforms - except AIX.

Thanks, patch applied.
>
> 2) A build error:
>
> no fallback module for Texinfo::Parser at ../../tp/Texinfo/XSLoader.pm line
> 242.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> ../../tp/Texinfo/XS/parsetexi/Parsetexi.pm line 454.
> Compilation failed in require at ../../tp/Texinfo/Report.pm line 45.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../../tp/Texinfo/Report.pm line 45.
> Compilation failed in require at ../../tp/Texinfo/Convert/Converter.pm line
> 31.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../../tp/Texinfo/Convert/Converter.pm
> line 31.
> Compilation failed in require at ../tp/texi2any line 100.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../tp/texi2any line 100.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 9.
>
> Find attached the log files.

I suspect TEXINFO_XS_PARSER was set in the environment here. Looking
at the log files you sent it appears that the configure script found
that XS modules could not be built and loaded. Maybe the error message
could be improved.