Hi Jonathan, >> >> Still looking for help from anyone brave enough to venture in this hole. >> I just really want to figure out why compiling GCC 64-bit for AIX is so >> difficult. > > Like it says, see config.log for more details. > > The problem is probably those environment variables you're defining. > > Building GCC on AIX 7.2 is possible with the following config > (providing valid paths for gmp and libiconv): > > PATH=/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH > .../src/configure --disable-werror --enable-languages=c,c++ > --with-gmp=... --with-libiconv-prefix=... --disable-libstdcxx-pch > --with-included-gettext > make SHELL=/bin/bash CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash > > The SHELL and CONFIG_SHELL variables aren't required, they just speed things up. > In my limited experience, CONFIG_SHELL looks required (or becomes required?). Without it I encountered the configuration error like: gcc-base/libstdc++-v3/configure[22664]: syntax error at line 47774 : `;' unexpected gcc-base/libstdc++-v3/configure[22664]: syntax error at line 17 : `)' unexpected which bothered me for a while before. BR, Kewen
