Re: Make check fails in libtool 2.1a (CVS snapshot) on AIX

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Kyle,

* Kyle Stemen wrote on Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 08:29:50AM CEST:
> I'm building libtool on AIX 5.3 release 4. I have gcc and other
> development tools installed from
> http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html.
> 
> Make check is failing on the CVS snapshot, 2.1a. It is also failing in
> the development release, 1.9f. I chose to include the failures from 2.1a
> because there are fewer of them.

Thanks.  We're much more interested in 2.1a data.

> Most of the tests fail with (see attachment):
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: _GLOBAL__FD_libhello_so
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: _GLOBAL__FI_libhello_so

I've seen this kind of failure before on HPUX 10.20 with GCC.
Which compiler version do you use, how is it configured?

> tagdemo-make.test fails with some missing C++ exports. G++ is broken on
> AIX with regards to templates, so that isn't a libtool problem.

It would still be good to see verbose error output here, even if just
for comparison.  Also, could you please run the new testsuite and see
how it fares (make check-local; see README for more information)?

Thanks,
Ralf