Re: Building git 2.4.5 on AIX 6.1 problems

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2015, 18:30 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqwpy9uqth.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <516b832bd9db48e4bdb486d63b2a3977@imap.force9.net>

John Norris <john@norricorp.f9.co.uk> writes:

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> I am trying to compile git 2.4.5 which I downloaded as a tar file on
> AIX 6.1. The machine has gcc installed.
> Having read through the INSTALL file, there appear to be several ways,
> either using configure, make, make install or just make, make install
> with prefix of where to install.
> Anyway whichever approach I try I end up with the same error.
>     LINK git-credential-store
> ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: .bcopy
> ...
> But really need help as this is very frustrating and googling has not
> found anything that quite matches it.

As "ld: 0711-224 WARNING: Duplicate symbol: .bcopy" seems to hit many similar issues across different piece of software, I have a suspicion that AIX folks (as opposed to Git folks) may have a lot better insight to the peculiarity of the platform.

Running "make" with "V=1" may show the exact command line that is invoked (it would begin with "gcc ...", I think), which may help diagnosing the issue further.