[Help-gsl] Building GSL 1.7 on AIX using xlc

[Mathias Wagner]

Hi,

I am trying to build gsl on an IBM power 5 machine running AIX 5.2 using xlc 
compiler version 7.0.

I used

./configure --prefix=$HOME/gsl CC=xlc --disable-shared

without any (obvious) problems. When I run make I get the following output:


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address@hidden:gsl-1.7 > make
        make  all-recursive
Making all in gsl
        rm -f gsl*.h
        HEADERLIST="../gsl*.h ../*/gsl*.h";  for h in $HEADERLIST; do  
BASENAME=`basename $h`;  test -r $BASENAME || ln -s $h $BASENAME;  done
Target "all" is up to date.
Making all in utils
        /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link xlc  -O -qmaxmem=8192   -Wl,-bbigtoc -o 
libutils.la   placeholder.lo  -lm
rm -fr .libs/libutils.la .libs/libutils.* .libs/libutils.*
ar cru .libs/libutils.a  placeholder.o
ar: 0707-126 placeholder.o is not valid with the current object file mode.
        Use the -X option to specify the desired object mode.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.


Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.


Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.


Stop.
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Does anyone know what this means?

Thanks,

Mathias
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