[CMake] Compile cmake on Power5 based computer

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Tue Jun 20 20:22:16 EDT 2006


At 05:23 PM 6/20/2006, Dong Luo wrote:
>-fPIC and -rdynamic are not flags for xlC. By defining
>CXX to gxlc++ (which suppose to translate the flags),
>the ./bootstrap finished without problem.
>However, the next step of type gmake as suggested
>give:
>Linking CXX executable
>../../bin/testCommandLineArguments
>/opt/ibmcmp/vacpp/7.0/bin/xlC: 1501-216 command option
>-rdynamic is not recognized - passed to ld
>/usr/bin/ld: bad -rpath option
>gmake[2]: *** [bin/testCommandLineArguments] Error 1
>gmake[1]: ***
>[Source/kwsys/CMakeFiles/testCommandLineArguments.dir/all]
>Error 2
>gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>
>Is there a way to let gmake use gxlc++ instead of xlC?

Just set CXX and CC environment variables before running bootstrap:
export CXX=gxlc++
export CC=gxlc

make sure you start with a clean build tree.

-Bill



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