Re: support for IA64 HP-UX

[Martin Sebor]

Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Martin Sebor <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   ms> Paul D. Smith wrote:
>
>   >> The version of autoconf used by the current release of GNU make has
>   >> problems in HP-UX 11.
>
>   ms> The default cc on my platform doesn't work (I don't know if it's
>   ms> even supposed to) but I was able to configure with CC=aCC
>   ms> ./configure.  Unfortunately, aCC on IPF is the C++ compiler and
>   ms> turning on -Ae to use it in C mode gives errors both at configure
>   ms> time and, worse, at build time. Note that this is HP-UX 11.22 on
>   ms> IA64 not HP-UX 11.xx on PA-RISC. Is there any special setup I
>   ms> should follow for this target?
>
> I don't know of any; it should just work.  But, I don't know that
> anyone's tried it either.
>
> Can you tell me what kinds of errors you get for cc, aCC, and aCC -Ae?

I think I have it solved. Our aCC setup was causing a conflict with
cc (that's probably an issue for our sysadmin). Removing aCC from my
environment allowed me to use cc and configure and build the make 3.80.
It seems to work just fine so far :)

Thanks again for your help!
Martin