Re: ncurses 64bit AIX

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 20 May 2010, pcazallas wrote:

> Thomas Dickey-2 wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 May 2010, pcazallas wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I need to install ncurses 64 bit static library in an AIX 6 system, but I
> > > cannot do it from the source code. Although I'm able to compile the
> > > source
> > > 64-compat, I cannot link the lib objects correctly with ld.
> > >
> > > Please, give me a hand with this if possible. Or tell me if it's
> > > impossible
> > > :-(
> >
> > It should be possible - AIX C compiler's option for 64-bits appears to be
> > "-q64".  If you're using gcc, that might be a different story, since its
> > per-platform support for 64-bits is "varied".
> >
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> Yes, I've tried with these both options:
> -q64
> -qarch=ppc64
>
> After running the .configure script, I modify the Makefile files to change
> the "ar" and "ld" commands, adding the next modifiers:
>
> ar -X64
> ld -b64
>
> But, after compiling, the linkedition doesn't work properly and make throws
> an error at the "ld" stage...

I see that the problem is that the last time I updated the CF_AR_FLAGS 
macro, I did not allow for having $ARFLAGS override the macro's choice.
It needs that, since none of the common choices will work.  That ends up
putting "unknown" into the substituted ARFLAGS value in the different 
makefiles.

For a quick fix, I'd edit config.status after configuring, and change the 
line that looks like

s,@ARFLAGS@,unknown,;t t

to

s,@ARFLAGS@,-X 64 -crv,;t t

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