This patch by Clément Chigot changes the go tool to pass -X64 to ar on AIX. On aix/ppc64, ar tool must always have -X64 argument if it aims to create 64 bits archives. Bootstrapped on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline.
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Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE =================================================================== --- gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (revision 269401) +++ gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (working copy) @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -3ae3024cae07fe7e85968ad2583add350616b296 +14e48e756af205a68374c872f3bd03d62ccd70bb The first line of this file holds the git revision number of the last merge done from the gofrontend repository. Index: libgo/go/cmd/go/internal/work/gccgo.go =================================================================== --- libgo/go/cmd/go/internal/work/gccgo.go (revision 269333) +++ libgo/go/cmd/go/internal/work/gccgo.go (working copy) @@ -278,6 +278,13 @@ func (tools gccgoToolchain) link(b *Buil return nil } + var arArgs []string + if cfg.Goos == "aix" && cfg.Goarch == "ppc64" { + // AIX puts both 32-bit and 64-bit objects in the same archive. + // Tell the AIX "ar" command to only care about 64-bit objects. + arArgs = []string{"-X64"} + } + newID := 0 readAndRemoveCgoFlags := func(archive string) (string, error) { newID++ @@ -293,11 +300,11 @@ func (tools gccgoToolchain) link(b *Buil b.Showcmd("", "ar d %s _cgo_flags", newArchive) return "", nil } - err := b.run(root, root.Objdir, desc, nil, tools.ar(), "x", newArchive, "_cgo_flags") + err := b.run(root, root.Objdir, desc, nil, tools.ar(), arArgs, "x", newArchive, "_cgo_flags") if err != nil { return "", err } - err = b.run(root, ".", desc, nil, tools.ar(), "d", newArchive, "_cgo_flags") + err = b.run(root, ".", desc, nil, tools.ar(), arArgs, "d", newArchive, "_cgo_flags") if err != nil { return "", err } @@ -516,7 +523,7 @@ func (tools gccgoToolchain) link(b *Buil switch buildmode { case "c-archive": - if err := b.run(root, ".", desc, nil, tools.ar(), "rc", realOut, out); err != nil { + if err := b.run(root, ".", desc, nil, tools.ar(), arArgs, "rc", realOut, out); err != nil { return err } }