[cfarm-users] Please install CMake on GCC119

[David Edelsohn]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 5:33 PM Noah Misch via cfarm-users
<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 02:19:36PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-users wrote:
> > We have the (dis)pleasure of maintaining CMake source files. If it is
> > not too much trouble could someone install Cmake on GCC119.
>
> When I needed cmake on gcc119, I installed a private copy of cmake-3.12.0-rc2 as
> follows:
>
>   ./bootstrap --prefix=$HOME/sw/cmake --parallel=10 --verbose CC=gcc CXX=g++ CFLAGS=-maix64 CXXFLAGS=-maix64 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-bbigtoc
>   gmake -j10
>   gmake test
>   gmake -j4 install
>
> (This doesn't fill your request, but I'm conveying these facts in case they help
> you or someone who does fill it.)
>
> > CMake is kind of fragile to begin with. I think it would be prudent to
> > test on AIX to see how things break and then fix the breaks.

Why does cmake need to be compiled as 64 bit?  And linking with bigtoc
is a very inefficient, bad choice.  If it really overflows the TOC, it
should be compiled with -mcmodel=large.

Because the Bull Freeware site does not maintain a consistent ABI,
it's very difficult for me to install a cmake binary now. It would
have been helpful to notify me of these additional software
requirements during the last update of packages downloaded from Bull
Freeware.

- David