Thanks Daniel, I did browse the config.log , but all it told me was that
it failed.

I then tried the test in the configure script and found that ld returns
an error with both -v and --version which could explain the failure.

>From what I saw in configure I can by-pass the test by defining $LD.
Doing that got me to the point where configure succeeded. The
compilation of strerror.c failed with incompatible redeclarations.
(Declarations in strerror.c differ from 2 in curl.h and 1 in multi.h)

I haven't tried to resolve those yet, but any additional pointers around
that which could help save some time would be appreciated. Additionally,
any comments on whether forcing the use of /usr/ccs/bin/ld is likely to
succeed would be appreciated.

Thanks for all the help.

Regards,

Justin Webb

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel-curl_at_haxx.se]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:59 AM
To: curl tool talk
Subject: Re: configure:4982: error: no acceptable ld found in $PATH -
AIX V4.3.3

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Justin Webb wrote:

> Newbie here, trying to get this lot installed, but am getting the
error
> noted above when running configure.
>
> Firstly, I have checked the path and /usr/ccs/bin where ld hides is
> definitely in the PATH (I had to add it).
>
> Although both ld and make did respond with suitable error messages
from the
> command line before I added that directory to the path.

When you encounter problems with running configure, you should fire up
your
editor and inspect the config.log that configure generated. In
particular you
should look for the test that reported failure and see if you can figure
out
what made it fail.

If you cannot, you can always extract the pieces that concerns this
problem
and post it here.

This particular error message is generated by a piece of the configure
that is
very generic and that has proven to work on an insane amount of
platforms and
hosts.

Also, Tor Arntsen runs autobuilds on AIX 4.3 and it hasn't shown any
particular problems (similar to these) that I can remember.

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