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Re: Subversion on AIX

From: David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:41:57 -0400

I had to change the GCC flags. Still have some issues. The version of
Neon is not correct (need 0.29 and not 0.28.3), and it took me a while
to get zlib working. I had to build that manually and add the
--with-zlib=$HOME flag. Then, there was a complaint about apr and I
had to go in and hack the apr configuration file.

I hate trying to get this stuff to build. The configure utility is
impossible to debug and Make isn't any better. I've been building
software for over 20 years and I shiver every time I have to build
this stuff. Documentation is scanty and no comments in any of the
files or utilities.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Ryan Schmidt
<subversion-2010d_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Oct 13, 2010, at 12:03, David Weintraub wrote:
>
>> I was able to build everything until neon. There I get
>>
>>   $ ./configure --with-expat=/app/fms/build/lib/libexpat.la
>> --enable-shared=yes --prefix=/app/fms/build
>>    checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./install-sh -c
>>    checking for gcc... gcc
>>    checking for C compiler default output file name...
>>    configure: error: in `/app/fms/build/subversion-1.6.13/neon':
>>    configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>>    See `config.log' for more details.
>>    cmuser_at_fmsdwbap01:~/subversion-1.6.13/neon
>>    $
>>
>> Can you give me any help? It looks like it's crapping out when it is
>> trying to determine the default link output. However, apr, apr-util,
>> and expat all worked.
>
> [snip]
>
>> configure:2670: checking for C compiler default output file name
>> configure:2692: gcc  -l/app/fms/build/include/ -brtl conftest.c  >&5
>> gcc: '-b' must come at the start of the command line
>
> Looks like neon is using gcc in a way that's not compatible with AIX's version of gcc.
>
> A quick Google search shows this possible solution:
>
> http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2007-June/011788.html
>
> You may want to report this problem (and the solution, if it works) to the developers of neon.
>
> Or, check if the latest version of neon is still affected; I see you're using 0.28.6 but the current version is 0.29.4.
>
> Or, check if this is an autoconf problem; rerun the latest autoconf over neon's files and see if that fixes it up.
>
>

-- 
David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com
Received on 2010-10-14 06:42:38 CEST

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