bug#5942: 8.4 "kill" program fails to link on AIX 5.3

[Pádraig Brady]

On 13/04/10 22:36, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> Building coreutils-8.4 on a 64-bit AIX 5.3 system using GCC, I get this:
> 
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/coreutils-build/src'
>   CCLD     kill
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_once
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_getspecific
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_setspecific
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_key_create
> ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
> collect2: ld returned 8 exit status
> gmake[1]: *** [kill] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/coreutils-build/src'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Everything else builds and links fine. Does the "kill" program need some 
> special handling to make use of pthreads?

That's very strange.
Is the `timeout` util built for example as that uses
much the samem functions as `kill`.
It's like kill was being built with a different
toolchain (like xlc_r or something).

Could you provide the build output from `make V=1`.

cheers,
Pádraig.