I tried building 8.1.0 on AIX 5.3 and ran into a problem:
$ oslevel -s
5300-11-08-1140
$ gtar Jxf /opt/src/latest/devel/gcc-8.1.0/src/gcc-8.1.0.tar.xz
$ cd gcc-8.1.0
$ mkdir .obj
$ cd .obj
$ LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x70000000 ../configure \
SHELL=/opt/fsw/bash42/bin/bash LDFLAGS="-Wl,-brtl \
-Wl,-blibpath:/opt/TWWfsw/libisl016/lib:/opt/TWWfsw/libgmp61/lib:\
/opt/TWWfsw/libmpc10/lib:/opt/TWWfsw/libmpfr31/lib:/usr/lib" \
--enable-nls --with-included-gettext --enable-shared \
--enable-threads --enable-languages=c,c++ \
--with-gmp=/opt/TWWfsw/libgmp61 --with-isl=/opt/TWWfsw/libisl016 \
--with-mpc=/opt/TWWfsw/libmpc10 --with-mpfr=/opt/TWWfsw/libmpfr31 \
--with-local-prefix=/tmp/gcc8 --prefix=/tmp/gcc8
$ LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x70000000 gmake
...
In file included from /opt/build/china/gcc-8.1.0/.obj/powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.11.0/libstdc++-v3/include/cmath:45,
from /opt/build/china/gcc-8.1.0/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/math_stubs_long_double.cc:25:
/opt/build/china/gcc-8.1.0/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/math_stubs_long_double.cc:35:3: error: 'long double fabs' redeclared as different kind of symbol
fabsl(long double x)
^~~~~
/opt/build/china/gcc-8.1.0/.obj/gcc/include-fixed/math.h:312:16: note: previous declaration 'double fabs(double)'
extern double fabs(double);
^~~~
/opt/build/china/gcc-8.1.0/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/math_stubs_long_double.cc:35:9: error: expected primary-expression before 'long'
fabsl(long double x)
^~~~
/opt/build/china/gcc-8.1.0/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/math_stubs_long_double.cc:35:9: error: expected ')' before 'long'
/opt/build/china/gcc-8.1.0/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98/math_stubs_long_double.cc:35:3: note: to match this '('
fabsl(long double x)
^~~~~
gmake[6]: *** [math_stubs_long_double.lo] Error 1
gmake[6]: Leaving directory `/opt/build/china/gcc-8.1.0/.obj/powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.11.0/libstdc++-v3/src/c++98'
Has anyone successfully built 8.1.0 on AIX 5.3?
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albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
