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Josh Fox - 2020-11-23

Hi all,

I worked on compiling 3.0-rc1 on AIX 7.1 last year and with help from @sf-mensch
Now I need to get this working on AIX 7.2 - but I'm having issues.

Short version, I have GCC 4.9.4 from perlz installed with all dependencies. My configure command works but I get a failure during make. (I am using gmake) I have attached config.log as well as the output of make -bnoquiet.

This is the configure command I used

./configure --disable-rpath --without-db "CFLAGS=-Wno-attributes -maix64 -mcmodel=large" "LDFLAGS=-maix64 -ldl" CXXFLAGS="-m64" --enable-debug MAKE=gmake

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Josh Fox - 2020-11-23

Whoops, didn't actually upload config.log
I should also add, I've tried this with 3.0-rc1 as well as 3.1-rc1, attached output is from 3.1-rc1

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thomas - 2020-11-24

I think you're missing dependencies

HELP2MAN='${SHELL} /opt/cobol/gnucobol-3.1-rc1/build_aux/missing help2man'

You must install help2man

also add this during your config --without-cjson --without-xml2

AUTOCONF='${SHELL} /opt/cobol/gnucobol-3.1-rc1/build_aux/missing autoconf' AUTOHEADER='${SHELL} /opt/cobol/gnucobol-3.1-rc1/build_aux/missing autoheader' AUTOMAKE='${SHELL} /opt/cobol/gnucobol-3.1-rc1/build_aux/missing automake-1.16'

you'll need the autoconf package. While doing that, autotools, automake, autopoint, libtool
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- Simon Sobisch - 2020-11-24
  
  help2man, bison, autotools and friends are only needed when building from a VCS snapshot, not from a tarball. It is fine that those are missing.
  
  In general configure checks for working dependencies and either creates an error (if mandatory) or disables the feature (if optional), so -without is normally not needed for a local build.
  If you don't explicit want to check for an optional item (like "error if missing") there's no need to explicit specify --with either.
  
  bdb is the sole exemption (mainly for historic reasons) which will behave identical in the next major version update (4.x) [instead a clear warning will be raised if no working INDEXED handler is found].
  
  Concerning cjson: as it is a very easy drop-in option one may consider downloading the two source files and copy them to the "libcob" folder before running configure.
  
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/v1.7.14/cJSON.c
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/v1.7.14/cJSON.h
  
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Simon Sobisch - 2020-11-24

Hm, that looks a bit weird. Before we look too much - can you please recheck if this also happens with the current development snapshot? You can try the one from view hours ago

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Josh Fox - 2020-11-24

Hi @sf-mensch

I just tried with the dev tarball and received a similar error regarding __cxa_finalize

ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__cxa_finalize
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__register_frame_info_table
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__deregister_frame_info
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
collect2: error: ld returned 8 exit status
gmake: *** [Makefile:554: libcob.la] Error 1
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

I am also attaching config.log for 3.1.1-dev

Thanks,
Josh

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Simon Sobisch - 2020-11-24

That's interesting!
The part that is raising that error is "ld". you likely can do as it requests by:

gmake -C libcob LDFLAGS="-maix64 -ldl -bnoquiet"

= run make in the directory libcob and use special LDFLAGS (I've used the one in your config.log + requested one)
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Simon Sobisch - 2020-11-24

Note: the CXXFLAGS specified are not taken up as those are the flags for C++.
You may want to recheck what we did last time (and possibly drop a link here).

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Josh Fox - 2020-11-24

When I issued that shorted make in libcob directory it immediately fails with this:
gmake: *** libcob: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.. Stop.

Here is the original configure command we used on the prior aix server, which was consequently aix 7.1

./configure --disable-rpath --without-db "CFLAGS=-Wno-attributes -maix64 -mcmodel=large" "LDFLAGS=-maix64 -ldl -L/opt/freeware/lib/" "LDLIBS=-lm" CXXFLAGS="-m64" --enable-debug MAKE=gmake
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- Simon Sobisch - 2020-11-24
  
  OK, we just ignore CXXFLAGS then...
  
  Concerning the error for the shortened version please retry with
  
  cd libcob gmake LDFLAGS="-maix64 -ldl -bnoquiet"
  
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  - Josh Fox - 2020-11-24
    
    When I reran from inside libcob directory without the -C flag it runs a little longer but the initial error still occurs:
    
    /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -Wno-attributes -maix64 -mcmodel=large -O0 -ggdb3 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -pipe -version-info 4:0:0 -no-undefined -maix64 -ldl -bnoquiet -o libcob.la -rpath /usr/local/lib common.lo move.lo numeric.lo strings.lo fileio.lo call.lo intrinsic.lo termio.lo screenio.lo reportio.lo cobgetopt.lo mlio.lo -lm -lgmp -lcurses -lintl libtool: link: rm -fr .libs/libcob.a.d .libs/libcob.exp libtool: link: `func_echo_all /usr/ccs/bin/nm -X64 -B | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/B$[^B]*$$/P\1/'` -PCpgl .libs/common.o .libs/move.o .libs/numeric.o .libs/strings.o .libs/fileio.o .libs/call.o .libs/intrinsic.o .libs/termio.o .libs/screenio.o .libs/reportio.o .libs/cobgetopt.o .libs/mlio.o | awk '{ if ((($ 2 == "T") || ($ 2 == "D") || ($ 2 == "B") || ($ 2 == "W") || ($ 2 == "V") || ($ 2 == "Z")) && (substr($ 1,1,1) != ".")) { if (($ 2 == "W") || ($ 2 == "V") || ($ 2 == "Z")) { print $ 1 " weak" } else { print $ 1 } } }' | sort -u > .libs/libcob.exp libtool: link: rm -f -r .libs/libcob.a.d libtool: link: mkdir .libs/libcob.a.d libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -o .libs/libcob.a.d/libcob.so.4 .libs/common.o .libs/move.o .libs/numeric.o .libs/strings.o .libs/fileio.o .libs/call.o .libs/intrinsic.o .libs/termio.o .libs/screenio.o .libs/reportio.o .libs/cobgetopt.o .libs/mlio.o -Wl,-blibpath:/opt/freeware/lib:/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.2.0.0/4.9.4/ppc64:/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.2.0.0/4.9.4:/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.2.0.0/4.9.4/../../..:/usr/lib:/lib -ldl -lm -lgmp -lcurses -L/opt/freeware/lib -lintl -liconv -lc -Wl,-bnoentry `func_echo_all " -maix64 -mcmodel=large -O0 -ggdb3 -maix64 " | /usr/bin/sed -e "s%-brtl\$[, ]\$%-berok\\1%g"`-Wl,-bE:.libs/libcob.exp -Wl,-bernotok ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__cxa_finalize ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__register_frame_info_table ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .__deregister_frame_info ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information. collect2: error: ld returned 8 exit status gmake: *** [Makefile:554: libcob.la] Error 1
    
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    - Simon Sobisch - 2020-12-16
      
      This SO question suggests that maybe the wrong C library is used (bad setup?).
      
      There's one thing I can suggest because that helped me on AIX once, too.
      If it is possible: download, unpack, configure and make GMP.
      There are two benefits in doing this:
      1. if you install this you likely have a better math performance in GnuCOBOL afterwards
      2. you can inspect the CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS that are auto-added by GMP and try to use the same for GnuCOBOL (GMP's configure "guesses" better).
      
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  - Josh Fox - 2020-12-16
    
    Hi Simon,
    Have you had any chance to review my issue?
    
    Thank you,
    Josh
    
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