Hi Bruno, First, thanks for your tremendous help with portability testing!
At 2023-03-06T01:32:17+0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > On AIX 7.2, for a 64-bit build, the environment variable AR needs to be set > to 'ar -X 64', see > https://gitlab.com/ghwiki/gnow-how/-/wikis/Platforms/Configuration . > > This is what I have done, and nevertheless the groff build fails: > > $ make > ... > GEN src/utils/lookbib/lookbib.1 > make all-am > AR libdriver.a > ar: 0707-126 src/libs/libdriver/input.o is not valid with the current object > file mode. > Use the -X option to specify the desired object mode. [...] Ah, I saw a possibly related problem on Solaris 10 myself. On the host I was using (gcc210.fsffrance.org), I had to build with "AR=gar PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH". But maybe I wouldn't have needed the $AR variable if your patch had already been applied. > This is caused by the line in Makefile.am: > AR=ar > > config.status contains the correct value: > S["AR"]="ar -X 64" > > The attached patch will fix it. Thank you! Regards, Branden
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