[CMake] problems with creating static library on aix

[Verweij, Arjen]

Hi,

Apparently it had to do with the setting for "ncargs". Increasing it to 256 (blocks of 4K) solved it.

Regards,
Arjen

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cmake-bounces at cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On Behalf
>Of Verweij, Arjen
>Sent: dinsdag 6 juli 2010 18:55
>To: cmake at cmake.org
>Subject: [CMake] problems with creating static library on aix
>
>Hi,
>
>We're experiencing two problems with creating static libraries through
>cmake on our AIX system.
>
>The first one is that a cmake based build environment will come up with
>64-bit XCOFF, but ar and friends won't play ball unless you add -X64. I
>suppose this issue has just been overlooked and is in fact minor.
>
>The other problem is that even though I have added the below workaround
>referenced in a thread from July '08, "ar cr" will choke on the amount
>or objects I'm feeding it. I'm sure this is a problem with the ar itself
>and not cmake, but I would be interested to learn of a possible
>workaround. It works fine for smaller archives.
>
>Thanks,
>Arjen
>
>SET(CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_CREATE "<CMAKE_AR> -X64 cr <TARGET> <LINK_FLAGS>
><OBJECTS>")
>SET(CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_APPEND "<CMAKE_AR> -X64 r  <TARGET> <LINK_FLAGS>
><OBJECTS>")
>SET(CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_FINISH "<CMAKE_RANLIB> -X64 <TARGET>")
>SET(CMAKE_CXX_ARCHIVE_CREATE ${CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_CREATE})
>SET(CMAKE_CXX_ARCHIVE_APPEND ${CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_APPEND})
>SET(CMAKE_CXX_ARCHIVE_FINISH ${CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_FINISH})
>SET(CMAKE_Fortran_ARCHIVE_CREATE ${CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_CREATE})
>SET(CMAKE_Fortran_ARCHIVE_APPEND ${CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_APPEND})
>SET(CMAKE_Fortran_ARCHIVE_FINISH ${CMAKE_C_ARCHIVE_FINISH})
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