Andrew Guertin wrote:
searching for powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-ld ... $HOME/local/bin/ld searching for ld ... $HOME/local/bin/ld
maybe not the problem, but did you try with absolute paths? I had a problem some time in the path with passing --prefix=~/this/that to configure and getting wrong result in the end because ~ was not extended. I had to do --prefix=/home/me/this/that
