Re: [platform-testers] groff 1.23.0.rc3 on AIX

[Bruno Haible]

On AIX 7.2, for a 64-bit build, the environment variable AR needs to be set
to 'ar -X 64', see
https://gitlab.com/ghwiki/gnow-how/-/wikis/Platforms/Configuration .

This is what I have done, and nevertheless the groff build fails:

$ make
...
  GEN      src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.1
        make  all-am
  AR       libdriver.a
ar: 0707-126 src/libs/libdriver/input.o is not valid with the current object 
file mode.
        Use the -X option to specify the desired object mode.
ar: 0707-126 src/libs/libdriver/printer.o is not valid with the current object 
file mode.
        Use the -X option to specify the desired object mode.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

Passing V=1 to see the details:

$ make V=1
        make  all-am
        rm -f libdriver.a
        ar cr libdriver.a src/libs/libdriver/input.o  
src/libs/libdriver/printer.o
ar: 0707-126 src/libs/libdriver/input.o is not valid with the current object 
file mode.
        Use the -X option to specify the desired object mode.
ar: 0707-126 src/libs/libdriver/printer.o is not valid with the current object 
file mode.
        Use the -X option to specify the desired object mode.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.


This is caused by the line in Makefile.am:
AR=ar

config.status contains the correct value:
S["AR"]="ar -X 64"

The attached patch will fix it.

0001-build-Fix-build-failure-on-AIX-in-64-bit-mode.patch
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