Re: [Help-gsl] installing GSL on AIX

[Brian Gough]

>    I am currently installing gsl-1.7 on our IBM cluster with an AIX5.1
>   operating system as it is needed by the Gadget2.0 library. While compiling
>   gsl-1.7 I got the following error.
>
>   gcc: installation problem, cannot exec
> '/usr/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/2.9-aix51-020209/collect2': arg
> list too long
>
>  After investigating it I found that the command line size of the shell in
>  AIX-5.1 is 24kb. As you know, while gsl Makefile tries to create its
>  executable file it fails due to the high number of object files to be linked.
>
>  One of the proposed solution listed on
>  http://econ.duke.edu/webfiles/arg/compecon/src/gsl/INSTALL is to
>  use a manual approach to incrementally combining the object files
>  in smaller groups.
>
>  Question:
>    How can I split the object files in smaller groups and compile them
>    incrementally?
>
>  Thank you in advance for any help.
Hello,

On more recent versions of AIX (e.g >= 5.1) use

  chdev -l sys0 -a ncargs=NNN

to increase the allowed number of arguments. NNN is the amount of
space measured in 4k blocks (default 6, maximum 1024)

Note that the main source of information for GSL is the INSTALL file in 
the distribution itself and our web page is http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl

--
Brian Gough

Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing the GSL Manual - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/manual/