Re: building GNU gettext on AIX

[Arsen Arsenović]

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> Arsen Arsenović wrote:
>> >   * If yes, then the question is how distributors will in general package
>> >     libintl on AIX. If it's installed in public locations (such as in
>> >     /opt/freeware/{lib,lib64}/libintl.a on gcc119.fsffrance.org), then we
>> >     have a problem: It may cause undefined behaviour in multithreaded
>> >     packages that use GNU libintl.
>> >     If you can guarantee that it will be installed in GCC-private 
>> > directories
>> >     (and outside the path where GCC looks for libraries to link with!) then
>> >     it would be OK to install such a non-thread-safe libintl.
>> >     But if you cannot guarantee that, we are in trouble.
>> 
>> The in-tree configuration already passes --disable-shared, so I imagine
>> passing --disable-threads would be OK too, for the case that it is
>> utilized.  (relevant for the latter case: GCC-private build of libintl)
>
> Yeah, but this affects only those people who use the in-tree build of
> the libraries.
>
> The problem for distributors remains the same: They have a strong tendency
> of building libraries indepently, with --enable-shared (so that they can
> easily apply fixes without rebuilding the world). These distributors on AIX
> would notice that the GCC configuration attempts to link with "-lintl"
> but not with "-lintl -pthread" and thus the configuration detects that NLS
> is not usable.
>
> Arsen: Where in the GCC tree is this part of the GCC configuration? Is it
> in some configure.ac owned by GCC, or does it come from gettext.m4 ?

See Makefile.def.  It specifies a host-gettext module that has the extra
flags set.

If the in-tree configuration is used, then the uninstalled-config.sh
gettext generates is used.  See config/gettext-sister.m4.

gettext.m4 is unaltered, but it is essentially only used when the
gettext in-tree source is not present (because, otherwise,
gettext-runtime generates uninstalled-config.sh even if it builds
nothing)

Hope that answers it.

> Bruno


-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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