Re: AIX and _nc_is_abs_path

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 09:09:14PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 08:54:19PM -0400, Ben Lentz wrote:
>  
> > Target "install" is up to date.
> > installing ../lib/libncurses.a as /opt/local/ncurses/lib/libncurses.a
> >         /mnt/sw/build/ncurses-5.9-20140614/install-sh -c -m 644
> > ../lib/libncurses.a /opt/local/ncurses/lib/libncurses.a
> >         ranlib /opt/local/ncurses/lib/libncurses.a
> 
> hmm - I'll have to try to build it as you suggest, to see exactly which part
> is breaking (I have occasional access to a similar system...)

I see that the underlying problem was this change (which I was unable to
test at the time):

20081227
        + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
          on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).

Essentially the problem was an incorrect fix for dependencies in the test
directory (it was not necessary to make the shared-library suffix ".a").
I've test-built with that part amended.

Without that fix, adding a "--without-normal" to your configure options
would suppress the static library (not the optimal fix).  I'll have the
suffix-change in tonight's snapshot.

By the way, I also found it necessary (for the static library in the c++
directory) to do

export ARFLAGS="-X 64"

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