9.4.0rc2 doesn't build on Linux-PPC

[Bill Larson]

On Feb 5, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 the mental interface of
> Bill Larson told:
>
>> On Feb 4, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>
>>> forwarded 408701 bind-users at isc.org
>
>>> thanks
>
>>> This is a copy of Debian bug #408701
>
>> Can you give the "configure" command that was used to get this?
>> Did you build from the BIND sources or from some other package?
>> What exactly are you doing?  We need more information.
>
> Build from the orig tarball with:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr \
> --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man \
> --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info \
> --sysconfdir=/etc/bind \
> --localstatedir=/var/run/bind \
> --enable-threads \
> --with-libtool \
> --enable-shared \
> --enable-static \
> --with-openssl=/usr \
> --with-gnu-ld \
> --enable-ipv6
>
> Without --with-libtool I have the same :(

Can I make a strong suggestion.  You have lots of options enabled in  
configure.  Be systematic and test each option one at a time to pin  
down the exact problem.

Since you won't be worrying about the actual installation, you can  
ignore all of the "*dir" specifications.  So, ignore the "--prefix",  
"--mandir", "--infodir", "--sysconfdir", "--localstatedir"  
specifications for testing.  You can specify these once you know  
everything else functions.

To start simply, try "make clean; sh configure; make" (I always run  
"make clean" just to insure that there is nothing left over from a  
previous build).  Then add the "configure" options one at a time to  
identify the problem.  A very short example of this strategy could be:

	make clean; sh configure; make							# base configuration
	make clean; sh configure --enable-threads; make				# "enable-threads"
	make clean; sh configure --with-libtool; make					# "with-libtool"
	make clean; sh configure --enable-threads --with-libtool; make	#  
"enable-threads" + "with-libtool"
	...etc...

You would add each desired option to "configure" to see what happens.

Please note that you have included all sorts of options, many of  
which are defaults.  The options "--enable-static" and "--enable- 
shared" default to "yes", and should not be necessary to explicitly  
specify.  What is your need to specify "--with-gnu-ld"?  Also, what  
version of OpenSSL are you using?  According to the README file, this  
must be 0.9.5a or newer.  Finally, "--enable-ipv6" use is  
automatically included if your operating system supports IPv6.  So,  
this option shouldn't really be necessary.  If your operating system  
support IPv6, IPv6 will automatically be included.  (Then again,  
there are issues with IPv6 on Linux.  Read the doc/misc/ipv6 file for  
more info.)

What I am suggesting is to try and simplify the "configure" statement  
you are using and ensure that the options you are specifying are  
truly necessary.  You may be making a bigger deal of this than is  
necessary.

(Note that I am NOT a Linux developer, but I have run into similar  
problems trying to include very possible option under MacOS X.  What  
I found was that I was trying to over-specify things and a simpler  
setup functioned without the associated problems.)

Bill Larson