On Dec 4, 9:00, Yang Tse wrote:
>The attached patch makes runtests.pl more talkative when unable to
>find out curl's version. Currently there are three autobuilds that
>fail at this point, so this should make it easier to find out why.
>
>Autobuilds that are failing at this point are Tor Arntsen's:
>
>--D-A---- AIX 5100-06 xlc 5.0 64bit
>--D-AZ--- AIX 5100-06 xlc 5.0
>--D-A---- AIX 4.3 xlc 4.4

For these particular problems we know already what the problem is -
we've just not been able to come up with a fix. I would have to dig
back quite a bit to get the exact details, but it boils down to not
being able to find the dynamic ares library because the parameters
libtool passes on to the AIX linker isn't how AIX likes them, IIRC.
The workaround is to link statically (although it's only the ares
library that needs to be linked statically). This probably only
affects our testing environment, my guess is that it'll work fine
in an actual installation with the dynamic ares library installed
in a standard place (although I haven't verified this).

-Tor
Received on 2005-12-04