Re: [openssl-users] ar : File format not recognized

[Bill Kurland]

On 4/17/2018 5:47 PM, Ludwig, Mark wrote:

From: Bill Kurland, Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:19 PM

I'm trying to build openssl-1.1.0h on AIX 6.1 with the ultimate goal of 
building the IO::Socket::SSL perl module.

make fails when creating libcrypto.a and libssl.a because, it seems, the *.o 
files are in a format not recognized by ar

I've passed "-Wl,-baix5coff64-rs6000" in config. I've also set 
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/openssl/lib -Wl,-baix5coff64-rs6000" though I don't see 
how that would have an effect on this problem.

I get the same result when I try to run ar command shown in the make output 
from the command line:
         ar r ../test2.sh

where test2.sh contains all the *.o files in crypto

Every source I can find seems to indicate that gcc should just 'know' what the 
correct file format is. Am I missing something? Well, obviously I'm missing 
something. Can anyone point out what?

Thanks

Not sure this will help, because I built v1.0.2 (haven't gotten to v1.1.0 yet) 
using the AIX compiler rather than gcc, but the AIX archiver (ar) has a -X 
option that specifies how many bits.

For example, your example might work as:

          ar -X 64 r LIBNAME.a ../test2.sh

(At least, I assume you're building 64-bit binaries based on seeing "coff64" 
above.)
(I also assume you omitted the library name in e-mail.)

HTH,
Mark

You mean use the AIX ar on AIX? Who'd have thought? Not me. Did the trick.

Now on to the next error.

Thanks.

/b

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