Re: Help requested for AIX compilation failure

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: Help requested for AIX compilation failure,...:

>xlC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./..     -DNDEBUG -g   -c glob.C
>"my-alloca.h", line 41.16: 1540-1405 (W) Syntax error in "#pragma alloca":
>expected "(" and found "end-of-line". The pragma is ignored.

Most of the versions of AIX I've worked with require that you either use
a `#pragma alloca' as the first thing in the file or specify the `-ma'
option to the compiler before alloca will be available.  The syntax error
probably means that the #pragma alloca in my-alloca.h didn't work.  Maybe
it's not the first thing, or maybe there's some other problem.

However, since everything linked, you're apparently ok -- if you missed
alloca then it would show up at link time.  The version of the compiler
and OS you're using may not even require either of these things anymore.

>Then during make install:
>
>/opt/freeware/bin/install -c -m 644 libiberty.a
>/opt/ddd-3.3.1/lib/libiberty.an
>/opt/freeware/bin/install: cannot create regular file
>`/opt/ddd-3.3.1/lib/libiberty.an': A file or directory in the path name
>does not exist.

That's because the Makefile in the libiberty directory doesn't create
the directories it plans to install into -- it assumes they're there.
In your case, /opt/ddd-3.3.1/lib isn't, so it can't install the file.

This should be fixed in the master sources of libiberty, but I'm not sure
what package Andreas gets them from.  I would be happy to submit the bug
report with the patch if I knew where it should go, but my guess is it's
already been fixed.

Tim
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