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Re: AIX


Uli Link <ul.mcamafia@linkitup.de> writes:

> There is another bug in "configure" which will make non-interactive
> builds of libffi fail with IBM XLC:
>
> in configure around line 3087 the the check for C compiler version
> will fail, as IBM xlc don't understand the "--version" flag. The
> equivalent is "-qversion".
>
> The compiler will generate it's interactive short help and will
> continue after CTRL-C or CR until the end of page.
>
> There is a check needed if ! GNU_C or if CC=xlc|xlc_r

Newer versions of autoconf appear to have added support for xlc.  I'll
prepare the next release candidate with autoconf 2.68.

AG


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