Re: Build issue on AIX 5.2

Re: Build issue on AIX 5.2

[Jim Marshall]

Thanks for the input. I got past the first error, by setting the command line to be larger on AIX, but now I get some other weird error:

configure: configuring in doc
configure: running /bin/sh '../.././gdb/doc/configure' --prefix=/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/build  '--cache-file=./config.cache' '--prefix=/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/build' '--program-transform-name=s,y,y,' '--build=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' '--host=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' '--target=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' '--srcdir=.././gdb' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-bbigtoc' 'build_alias=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' 'host_alias=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' 'target_alias=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=../.././gdb/doc
configure: loading cache .././config.cache
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/gdb-6.8/install-sh -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating .gdbinit
config.status: error: cannot find input file: gdbinit.in
configure: error: /bin/sh '../.././gdb/doc/configure' failed for doc
gmake[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/gdb-6.8'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

> find . -name gdbinit.in
./sim/common/gdbinit.in
./gdb/gdbinit.in


I will try moving it to '/tmp' and see if that makes a difference.

Any thoughts on the above error?


--- On Mon, 6/30/08, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:

> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Subject: Re: Build issue on AIX 5.2
> To: "Jim Marshall" <jim_marshall2268@yahoo.com>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 11:22 AM
> > Then I run gmake and it runs for a long while but
> eventually fails
> > trying to create a 'doc' directory.
> 
> Not sure where the problem might be; perhaps a shell that
> has a very
> low limitation in terms of the argument list size. The
> command line
> from your transcript doesn't look all that long! If you
> have other
> shells such as bash or zsh, try "make
> SHELL=bash", for instance (you
> don't have to reconfigure to try this out).  Another
> thing that
> you can try is build GDB from /tmp. That should reduce the
> size of
> some of the arguments used in the command that failed.
> 
> -- 
> Joel


      

Build issue on AIX 5.2

[Jim Marshall]

Hi,
 I don't use AIX that often and therefore am a bit out of my league, I guess. I downloaded the GDB 6.8 source tarball, extracted it and ran configure without any problems (./configure --prefix=/<myhomeDIR>/gdb/build)

Then I run gmake and it runs for a long while but eventually fails trying to create a 'doc' directory.

here is the output I get:

> gmake

...

configure: configuring in doc
configure: running /bin/sh '../.././gdb/doc/configure' --prefix=/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/build  '--cache-file=./config.cache' '--prefix=/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/build' '--program-transform-name=s,y,y,' '--build=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' '--host=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' '--target=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' '--srcdir=.././gdb' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-bbigtoc' 'build_alias=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' 'host_alias=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' 'target_alias=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0' --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=../.././gdb/doc
/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/gdb-6.8/gdb/configure[26859]: /bin/sh: arg list too long
configure: error: /bin/sh '../.././gdb/doc/configure' failed for doc
gmake[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/net/bosnetapp/vol/vol0/home1/jamarsha/aix/gdb-6.8'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2


I have gmake 3.80, gcc 3.4.3. This is an AIX 5.2 machine. autoconf is 2.59, makeinfo 4.12


Thoughts?



      

Re: Build issue on AIX 5.2

[Joel Brobecker]

> Then I run gmake and it runs for a long while but eventually fails
> trying to create a 'doc' directory.

Not sure where the problem might be; perhaps a shell that has a very
low limitation in terms of the argument list size. The command line
from your transcript doesn't look all that long! If you have other
shells such as bash or zsh, try "make SHELL=bash", for instance (you
don't have to reconfigure to try this out).  Another thing that
you can try is build GDB from /tmp. That should reduce the size of
some of the arguments used in the command that failed.

-- 
Joel

Re: Build issue on AIX 5.2

[Andreas Schwab]

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> Then I run gmake and it runs for a long while but eventually fails
>> trying to create a 'doc' directory.
>
> Not sure where the problem might be; perhaps a shell that has a very
> low limitation in terms of the argument list size.

That is usually a system limitation, not a shell limit.

> The command line from your transcript doesn't look all that long!

The limit also includes the size of the environment.

Andreas.

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Re: Build issue on AIX 5.2

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:22:39AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Then I run gmake and it runs for a long while but eventually fails
> > trying to create a 'doc' directory.
> 
> Not sure where the problem might be; perhaps a shell that has a very
> low limitation in terms of the argument list size. The command line
> from your transcript doesn't look all that long!

IIRC this is a system-wide configurable property on AIX.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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