On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:05:38PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: [compiling jigdo-file] > The version is: > VisualAge C++ Professional / C for AIX Compiler, Version 5 > > And that is a new compiler, not a very old one. I know of a few > sites that run much older ones.
Sorry that jigdo is causing so much trouble. > checking whether the C++ compiler is recent enough... no > * Your compiler failed to recognize some advanced C++ > * constructs. This means that it is probably too old. > * In case compilation fails, try upgrading to a newer > * compiler, e.g. GCC 2.95 or later. The C++ of the configure test is very hairy, jigdo doesn't actually use template specialization, so this warning might be bogus. I should probably change the configure test. > It then procedes to fail to find db_create in -ldb[lots of versions] > despite that being installed. --without-libdb gives a failure later on at: > checking whether dgettext works... no > * Make sure gettext is installed, or use > * --disable-nls to switch off gettext support. > configure: error: dgettext() call could not be linked. [snip] > With g++ (and a bunch of hacking), it compiles but fails to link. It seems you have a linker problem both with the native compiler and g++. The libdb and gettext tests all call the linker. Once that is resolved, ./configure --without-gui (maybe also --disable-nls) should work. > Also some "interesting" features turns up, like: > checking size of unsigned long... 0 > checking size of unsigned long long... 0 I've seen this myself on a Solaris machine with gcc - still need to get around to check what's causing it. > I haven't had time to take a better look at it yet, or turn the > software over to someone else around here. It is still painful, > especially compared to jigdo-port which compiled cleanly and without > problems. I'm very interested in getting it to compile cleanly on your machine. I guess it's not possible for me to get an account on your uni's machine so I can fix it myself? [jigdo mirror script] > It isn't for the images, it is for having all the other files and > directories looking exactly like the master site, a true mirror. Ah OK, I see. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
