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LGee

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Re: xlC compile errors: undefined symbol (irssi/perl)

« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2008, 10:30:00 PM »

Well... it proved easier than I thought.

Here is the recipe:

CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc_r ./configure --disable-ipv6 --prefix=/usr/local --with-perl-staticlib

This will compile just fine if you edit the following file:

src/fe-common/core/printtext.h

and remove the lines 37-57 (tests for the compiler) and the closing #endif on line 116, of course.

Well, running it is far from perfect:

$ irssi
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program irssi because of the following errors:
0509-150 Dependent module libperl.a(libperl.o) could not be loaded.
0509-022 Cannot load module libperl.a(libperl.o).
0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.

However,

$ LIBPATH=$LIBPATH:/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thread-multi/CORE/ irssi

starts the program.

23:23 CTCP VERSION reply from LGee: irssi v0.8.13-svn - running on AIX 004FF48A4C00


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Michael

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Re: xlC compile errors: undefined symbol (irssi/perl)

« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2008, 04:59:04 PM »

This is what I got to compile last March:
michael@x054:[/data/prj/irssi-0.8.12]irssi -? Usage: irssi [OPTION...] Help Options: -?, --help Show help options Application Options: --config=PATH Configuration file location (~/.irssi/config) --home=PATH Irssi home dir location (~/.irssi) -c, --connect=SERVER Automatically connect to server/network -w, --password=PASSWORD Autoconnect password -p, --port=PORT Autoconnect port -!, --noconnect Disable autoconnecting -n, --nick Specify nick to use -h, --hostname Specify host name to use -d, --dummy Use the dummy terminal mode -v, --version Display irssi version

drwxr-xr-x 5 michael staff 4096 Mar 21 2008 irssi-0.8.12 -rw-r--r-- 1 michael staff 935918 Mar 21 2008 irssi-0.8.12.tar.bz2 drwxr-xr-x 6 michael staff 4096 Mar 30 2008 irssi-0.8.13-svn -rw-r--r-- 1 michael staff 1382591 Mar 30 2008 irssi-20080328.tar.gz

I see the *.13.svn directory as well. Need to check that. I have not worked with it much since then. Maybe the version ending in .12 is better for now.


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Michael

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Re: xlC compile errors: undefined symbol (irssi/perl)

« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2008, 03:53:46 PM »

Well I have compiled irssi - but maybe using gcc.

The way some opensource packages are developed makes porting hard. libtool often seems to get in the way.

Recently I was compiling apache2, and it failed with gcc. A bad library search path. Using xlC - older than yours though, version 8 I think, it compiled fine.

Generally, the fix is to specify environment variables to ./configure. But each package requires it's own approach. Unfortunately.

I shall be on the road the coming week, so I wont have time to look at how I built irssi myself, but I'll let you know asap.


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LGee

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xlC compile errors: undefined symbol (irssi/perl)

« on: November 14, 2008, 01:10:02 PM »

Hello,

this is my first post here ;-)

I have started compiling irssi on AIX 5.3 TL8 with xlC 10.1.

The following components are already compiled with exit 0:

- pkg-config-0.23
- gettext-0.17
- glib-2.19.0 # this was a hard one, I had to comment out a few lines in the code to get it working ;-)

I have problems with

irssi-0.8.13-svn (2008-11-12)

In src/perl/common, make fails with missing symbols:

Making all in perl
for dir in common irc ui textui; do cd $dir && if [ ! -f Makefile ]; then /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=perl PREFIX=/usr/local; fi && (make CC="xlc_r -D_ALL_SOURCE" CCFLAGS="-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=16384 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong -I/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thread-multi/CORE -g" || make CC="xlc_r -D_ALL_SOURCE" CCFLAGS="-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=16384 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong -I/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thread-multi/CORE -g" ) && cd ..; done
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Irssi/Irssi.so
LD_RUN_PATH="" ld -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thread-multi/CORE/perl.exp -bE:Irssi.exp -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc_r Channel.o Core.o Expando.o Ignore.o Irssi.o Log.o Masks.o Query.o Rawlog.o Server.o Settings.o -o blib/arch/auto/Irssi/Irssi.so
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .irssi_ref_object
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .nicklist_getnicks
... (snip)
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .perl_get_api_version
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8.

I have collected a few hints found on the web (including adding -bnoquiet as suggested ;-), but unfortunately, I can only test them in the evening on my machine.

As I see, this linker problem is quite common on AIX. So the real question is if there is a 'generic approach' to handling this problem.

regards
LGee