Kai,
Thanks for the help, that lead me to the answer. The problem was that
make was using the IBM ranlib and ar, while libmpn.a was in the format
used by GNU ar. I fixed my path to point to the GNU binutils and now
that step is completing.
Hitting another error now however. In the section "Configuring stage 1
in ./mpfr", make is failing with:
checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... no
configure: error: libgmp not found or uses a different ABI (including
static vs shared).
Here are the steps I took to get here:
git clone --branch=releases/gcc-9 git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git gcc
cd gcc/
contrib/download_prerequisites
mkdir ../objdir
cd ../objdir
../gcc/configure --prefix=/usr/gcc --enable-languages=c,c++,go
make SHELL=/bin/bash CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
--
Chris Pittsley
Engineering and Support
Alebra Technologies, Inc.
508-306-1332
-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Ruottu <kai.ruottu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Chris Pittsley <chris.pittsley@xxxxxxxxxx>, gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx
<gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Cannot Compile GCC 9.3 on AIX 6.1 -- ar: 0707-108 File
.libs/libmpn.a is not an archive file.
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 11:19:14 +0200
> Kai Ruottu kirjoitti 4.11.2020 klo 2.41:
>
> This was forgotten in the error notifications :
>
> Usage: ranlib [-t] [-X {32|64|32_64}] [--] file ...
>
> When I looked in the 'gcc-9.3.0/configure' there was this :
>
> *-*-aix4.[3456789]* | *-*-aix[56789].*)
> # nm and ar from AIX 4.3 and above require -X32_64 flag to all
> ar
> and nm
> # commands to handle both 32-bit and 64-bit objects. These
> flags are
> # harmless if we're using GNU nm or ar.
> extra_arflags_for_target=" -X32_64"
> extra_nmflags_for_target=" -B -X32_64"
> ;;
>
> Why this wasn't forwarded into your Makefile(s) is one question...
> How
> did
> you configured your GCC build when the '*-*-aix[56789].*' template
> didn't match
> to your $host/$target name?
>
The thread from August could give some hints...
http://gcc.1065356.n8.nabble.com/Compiling-GCC-10-2-on-AIX-7-2-
td1728174.html
