build problems on IBM AIX machine

[Charlie Zender <zender at uci dot edu>]

Hi,

I tried to build gsl-0.9 on the IBM AIX with the native xlc compiler.
The first problem appeared to be related to libtool or parallel make.
The build was always waiting for libtool locks to be released so
I changed the configure to be

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-libtool-lock

and then I explicitly specified 1 job to the ancient GNU make (3.74)
used: 

make --jobs=1

With these options, the compiling seemed to go well until I began
to see error messages related to the naming of libraries and object
modules. Libraries had suffixes like .al or .la (rather than .a)
and object files had suffixes like .lo (rather than .o), e.g.,

xlc: 1501-218 file .libs/libgsl.lax/libgslblock.al/init.lo contains an incorrect file suffix

These errors eventually accumulated and cause the build to fail.
I made the results of the ./configure and make steps available 
for your inspection at
ftp://ftp.cgd.ucar.edu/pub/zender/gsl/gsl.foo

To summarize, my build procedure is:

unalias make
cd ~
gunzip xvf gsl-0.9.tar.gz
tar xvf gsl-0.9.tar
cd gsl-0.9
setenv CC 'xlc'
setenv CFLAGS '-O -qmaxmem=8192'
make distclean
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-libtool-lock >&! gsl.foo
make --jobs=1 >>& gsl.foo
make --jobs=1 test >>& gsl.foo
make --jobs=1 install >>& gsl.foo
make --jobs=1 clean >>& gsl.foo

If I am doing something wrong in the build process, or if you need
more information, please contact me. If anyone has had success
building on this platform, please send me the build procedure you
used.

Thanks,
Charlie
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