[cfarm-users] Installing emacs on GCC119/AIX

[David Edelsohn]

The Emacs RPM is broken.  The pre-built binaries for AIX are known to
have problems with libintl dependencies.

- David


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Martin Jambor <mjambor at suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:12:44AM -0400, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users
>> <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > I'd like to install emacs on GCC119/AIX.
>>
>> GNU Emacs already is installed on gcc119 in /opt/freeware.
>
> It is, but when I try to run it, I get an error:
>
> jamborm at power8-aix:~/gcc$ which emacs
> /opt/freeware/bin//emacs
> jamborm at power8-aix:~/gcc$ emacs
> exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program emacs because of the following errors:
>         0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for /opt/freeware/lib/libglib-2.0.a(libglib-2.0.so.0) because:
>         0509-136   Symbol __dbargs (number 187) is not exported from
>                    dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.8).
>         0509-136   Symbol __dbsubc (number 195) is not exported from
>                    dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.8).
>         0509-136   Symbol __dbsubg (number 196) is not exported from
>                    dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.8).
>         0509-136   Symbol __dbsubn (number 197) is not exported from
>                    dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.8).
>         0509-026 System error: Error 0
>         0509-192 Examine .loader section symbols with the
>                  'dump -Tv' command.
>
>
> Or am I the only one getting that error?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin