Shortly after the last blog post I had access to a couple of AIX LPAR. This would be my first time on a IBM PowerPC system and AIX, I’d applied for two AIX 7.1 instances, one defined as “AIX 7.1 Porting Image” and the other as plain “AIX 7.1”. The difference at a glance seemed to be the porting image had more gnu / common open source tools e.g GNU/Tar though both images had a version of GCC installed.
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/bin/../libexec/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0/4.6.0/lto-wrapper
Target: powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0
Configured with: ./configure --disable-multilib --with-cpu=powerpc --enable-debug=no --with-debug=no --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld --with-pic --enable-threads=aix --with-mpfr=/opt/freeware/lib --with-gmp=/opt/freeware/lib --with-system-zlib=/opt/freeware/lib --with-mpc=/opt/freeware/lib --with-mpicc=mpcc_r --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr --disable-nls --prefix=/software/gnu_c/bin --enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: aix
gcc version 4.6.0 (GCC)
The stock version came with GCC 4.2 built on AIX 6.1 whereas the porting image came with GCC 4.6.
Alongside the open source tools each instance also had proprietary tools installed including IBM’s compiler XLC, cc without any options invokes a man page which describes the different commands that represent a language at a level.
c99 – Invokes the compiler for C source files, with a default language level of STDC99 and specifies compiler option -qansialias (to allow type-based aliasing). Use this invocation for strict conformance to the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard..
The pkgsrc bootstrap process didn’t work too well by trying to allow it to workout things out for itself via cc so opted to use GCC specifically.
export CC=gcc
pkgsrc happily bootstrapped without privilege and I proceeded to install misc/tmux and shells/pdksh on AIX.
security/openssl comes with 4 different configuration settings for AIX, a pair of settings for the XLC & GCC compilers with a 32bit or 64bit target. It turned out that in pkgsrc it just defaulted to aix-cc (XLC with a 32bit target), pkg/49131 is now committed so the correct configuration is used, XLC successfully builds OpenSSL with a 32bit or 64bit ABI but GCC is only able to manage a 32bit target.
To switch compiler to xlc, declare it as the value to PKGSRC_COMPILER in your mk.conf.
Over the week I attempted to compile components of GCC 4.8 without much success, starting off with lang/gcc48-cc++ & falling back to lang/gcc48-libs.
The build process was very unstable, again as with the Tiger/PowerPC, the build would spin off & hang, pegging the CPU until killed. Attempting to restrict the processor time via ulimit didn’t have much effect.
Alongside trying to get GCC built on AIX, I kicked off building meta-pkgs/bulk-medium on sevan.mit.edu, the previously reported unfixed components prevented some of the packages from building again (ruby, MesaLib, cmake).
I began looking into fixing devel/cmake so that it would link against the correct version of curl libraries & use the matching header files, Modules/FindCURL.cmake in the cmake source references 4 variables which provide some control but I was unsuccessful in being able to pass these to the pkgsrc make process. While trying to resolve this issue I also discovered that on more recent version of Mac OS, the dependencies from pkgsrc ignored, opting for the use of the Apple supplied versions even though the pkgsrc version would be installed.
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/libz.dylib (found version "1.2.5")
-- Found CURL: /usr/lib/libcurl.dylib (found version "7.30.0")
-- Found BZip2: /usr/lib/libbz2.dylib (found version "1.0.6")
-- Looking for BZ2_bzCompressInit in /usr/lib/libbz2.dylib
-- Looking for BZ2_bzCompressInit in /usr/lib/libbz2.dylib - found
-- Found LibArchive: /usr/lib/libarchive.dylib (found version "2.8.4")
-- Found EXPAT: /usr/lib/libexpat.dylib (found version "2.0.1")
-- Looking for wsyncup in /usr/lib/libcurses.dylib
-- Looking for wsyncup in /usr/lib/libcurses.dylib - found
-- Looking for cbreak in /usr/lib/libncurses.dylib
-- Looking for cbreak in /usr/lib/libncurses.dylib - found
mail/mailman had a missing README in PLIST which was handled differently between Tiger & newer releases. pkg/49143 was committed to fix that.