The problem was down to the linker and archiver. I had to make sure that I used the ar and ld in /usr/bin (rather than aix ld and gnu ar) and the gnu compiler. Also, I did not realise I had already created libs so had to run clean and start with the right PATH to pick up the above. Finally, have to use the gnu install, not the /usr/bin/install. But getting there so thanks for all of the help that people have taken the time for. Regards, John -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Building-git-2-4-5-on-AIX-6-1-problems-tp7635435p7635699.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html