On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Kaveh R. Ghazi <gh...@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote: >> From: "David Edelsohn" <dje....@gmail.com> >> >> MPC-0.8 build fails on AIX due to libtool. The changes to libtool >> between MPC-0.7 and MPC-0.8 rely on Bash-specific features. Manually >> editing libtool to use Bash allowed the build to succeed. > > Hi David, > > Can you please be more specific about this problem? I've seen several build > reports on non-gnu systems that don't use bash as the default shell, > including my own solaris2.9 box. None of them fail on bash-isms. So I'm > curious what the actual failure is on AIX. > > The more recent libtool was suggested to avoid some issues on darwin, so I > prefer not to opt for a downgrade if at all possible. If there is some > non-portable shell construct, we should file a bug report with the libtool > maintainers. Another option in the mean time is that if ksh or some other > shell supplied by default works on AIX we could recommend using that via > CONFIG_SHELL.
AIX Shell is KSH. The problem is shell append += and libtool not running with the same shell used by configure. After my intervention: $ make check =================== All 57 tests passed =================== Thanks, David
