[cfarm-users] Installing emacs on GCC119/AIX

[Martin Jambor]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 09:01:38AM -0500, CM Graff via cfarm-users wrote:
> I believe the problem is that very few of us actually want or need
> AIX.

Why would that be the problem?  Or even a problem? 

> It's nice of IBM to donate machines, but we need them running
> linux, netbsd or freebsd.

No...?

> I don't advertise my work here, and nor
> would I expect it to be pre-installed if I donated a machine. Why
> should IBM be any different.

I do not understand the above at all so cannot comment.

> Furthermore, the product AIX is just not,
> and never has been important to the free software community, leading
> to time wastage and novelty test runs.

I have no clue how important AIX is to anybody, from time to time I
just want to test my more invasive patches in an environment that is
different from what I use normally and for that AIX is (potentially)
very useful, so I am very happy we have it in the farm.

I put potentially in a bracket above because I do it fairly rarely and
always forget what exactly needs to be done to bootstrap gcc on AIX
and so when it fails (like it does for me now), I never know whether
trunk is broken or I messed something up.  I think that a mini-HOWTO
on the compile farm wiki page would go a long way to make the machine
more useful.


On 10/10/17, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users
> The Emacs RPM is broken.  The pre-built binaries for AIX are known to
> have problems with libintl dependencies.

Does AIX use RPMs?  Interesting.

Martin



> >
> > - 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