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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2012-05-24 18:47:52 +0300
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2012-05-24 18:47:52 +0300
commitc6fa03a427e3d1320794102cee3ff4f5ae00eb36 (patch)
tree5c0431aabcb127c144f734a1f718befe11a4bb24 /INSTALL
parentBuild: Upgrade m4/acx_pthread.m4 to the latest version. (diff)
downloadxz-c6fa03a427e3d1320794102cee3ff4f5ae00eb36.tar.xz
Fix compiling with IBM XL C on AIX.
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 992f9073..fd0eca06 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@ XZ Utils Installation
1. Supported platforms
1.1. Compilers
1.2. Platform-specific notes
- 1.2.1. IRIX
- 1.2.2. MINIX 3
- 1.2.3. OpenVMS
- 1.2.4. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
- 1.2.5. Tru64
- 1.2.6. Windows
- 1.2.7. DOS
+ 1.2.1. AIX
+ 1.2.2. IRIX
+ 1.2.3. MINIX 3
+ 1.2.4. OpenVMS
+ 1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
+ 1.2.6. Tru64
+ 1.2.7. Windows
+ 1.2.8. DOS
1.3. Adding support for new platforms
2. configure options
2.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma
@@ -63,7 +64,14 @@ XZ Utils Installation
1.2. Platform-specific notes
-1.2.1. IRIX
+1.2.1. AIX
+
+ If you use IBM XL C compiler, pass CC=xlc_r to configure. If
+ you use CC=xlc instead, you must disable threading support
+ with --disable-threads (usually not recommended).
+
+
+1.2.2. IRIX
MIPSpro 7.4.4m has been reported to produce broken code if using
the -O2 optimization flag ("make check" fails). Using -O1 should
@@ -74,7 +82,7 @@ XZ Utils Installation
putting "-64" to CFLAGS to build a 64-bit version might help too.
-1.2.2. MINIX 3
+1.2.3. MINIX 3
The default install of MINIX 3 includes Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK),
which doesn't support C99. Install GCC to compile XZ Utils.
@@ -91,7 +99,7 @@ XZ Utils Installation
may want to pass gl_cv_cc_visibility=no to configure).
-1.2.3. OpenVMS
+1.2.4. OpenVMS
XZ Utils can be built for OpenVMS, but the build system files
are not included in the XZ Utils source package. The required
@@ -101,7 +109,7 @@ XZ Utils Installation
http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#xzutils
-1.2.4. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
+1.2.5. Solaris, OpenSolaris, and derivatives
The following linker error has been reported on some x86 systems:
@@ -111,14 +119,14 @@ XZ Utils Installation
as an argument to the configure script.
-1.2.5. Tru64
+1.2.6. Tru64
If you try to use the native C compiler on Tru64 (passing CC=cc to
configure), you may need the workaround mention in section 4.1 in
this file (pass also ac_cv_prog_cc_c99= to configure).
-1.2.6. Windows
+1.2.7. Windows
Building XZ Utils on Windows is supported under MinGW + MSYS,
MinGW-w64 + MSYS, and Cygwin. There is windows/build.bash to
@@ -138,7 +146,7 @@ XZ Utils Installation
windows/README-Windows.txt for details.
-1.2.7. DOS
+1.2.8. DOS
There is an experimental Makefile in the "dos" directory to build
XZ Utils on DOS using DJGPP. Support for long file names (LFN) is