Problems with AIX4 Compiler

[Bill Wendling]

Hello,

I have a question/problem with libtool which I was hoping someone here
could help me with.

We are using ``libtool-1.3.4'' for our project. When working on the SP3
machines (config.guess output: rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.3.0, and the other being
powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0), the compiler would output "binaries" which don't
have the executable bit set. That is, there's a problem during the
compile.

We've tracked the problem down to the ``ltconfig'' file. Somewhere around
line 1280, the line

    hardcode_libdir_flag_spec='${wl}-b ${wl}nolibpath ${wl}-b 
${wl}libpath:$libdir:/usr/lib:/lib'

is being executed. The "-Wl,-b -Wl,nolibpath -Wl,-b -Wl,libpath:..."
flags which get appended to the compile line is causing the compiler
(C for AIX Compiler, Version 5.0.2.0) to produce the nonexecutable code.

I know that libtool is now at verion 1.4, but I have reason to believe
that the problem is still in there.

Have you seen this before? Is there a fix for it? Right now, we have a
very hacky fix (basically checking for the failing platforms and stopping
the addition of the -Wl,... flags), but this fails for some machines
which change their name from login to login.

Thanks you.

(P.S., please include my email address in your replies as I'm not
subscribed to this list).

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