On 2018-03-05 06:21 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 03/05/2018 04:01 PM, John Wiersba wrote:
As an additional comment, it took me quite a while to find working
values for
CFLAGS, AR, and LDFLAGS. I'm not sure how you might accomplish it,
but it would be
friendlier if, once it's determined that gcc is not available and xlC
is available,
a reasonable set of default options were supplied, so that every user
of xlC doesn't
have to rediscover some set defaults which allow the build to succeed.
Just recently we've added information about GCC's CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/AR
on AIX in the README:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=f4fec336
Perhaps it's worth expanding and mentioning XLC flags ?
(as an interim fix until proper detection is made)
