Re: Subversion on AIX

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.
Received on 2010-10-14 01:07:30 CEST