[Xapian-devel] Xapian-core on AIX (was: ICU)

Jean-Francois Dockes jean-francois.dockes at wanadoo.fr
Mon Apr 24 15:15:31 BST 2006


Olly Betts writes:
> Incidentally I've never heard from anyone who's tried Xapian on AIX (and
> IBM don't seem to have any sort of "developer access" program, which is
> a little suprising given they seem very supportive of Open Source in
> other ways).

I have an old IBM workstation around and, just for the "fun" of it, I built
xapian-core 0.9.2 on AIX 5.2 with gcc 3.3.2 (from the IBM AIX support site).

The software builds without problems, except for the link of the shared
library which does not work at all. Libtool fails to build the .so file 
out of the .a archives. I tried both with libtool 1.3 and 1.5.22.

I was able to build the shared library "by hand" (listing the object files
on the command line), and the result seemed to work normally (I only
performed minimal testing).

Jf



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