Subject: bug#20940: [bug-diffutils] bug#20940: Issue with AIX build ld:Undefined symbol: @4@null_action

From: Pete Lancashire <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 12:04:20 -0700

Please close.

The issue was resolved by building and installing GNU libiconv

This helped

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1997-10/msg00828.html

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Pete Lancashire <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> diffutils 3.2
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> oslevel -s  7100-03-05-1524
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> xlc is 12.1.0.3
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> CFLAGS cut back to not attempt optimization
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> compiler run as xlc_r
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> "Invokes the compiler for C source files. This command supports all of
> the ISO C99 standard features, and most IBM language extensions. This
> invocation is recommended for all applications."
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> reference:
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGH2K_12.1.0/com.ibm.xlc121.aix.doc/compiler_ref/tucmpinv.html?lang=en
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> PATH
>  /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/home/buildsw/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:.:/usr/vac/bin:/usr/vacpp/bin
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> OBJECT_MODE   64
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> CC       xlc_r
> CFLAGS -qmaxmem=-1 -qarch=pwr7 -qtune=pwr7 -qcache=auto -DSYSV -D_AIX
> -D_AIX71 -D_ALL_SOURCE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -O5 -I/usr/local/include
> LDFLAGS  -L/usr/local/lib64 -L/usr/local/lib -bmaxdata:0x80000000 -brtl
> LIBS
> CPPFLAGS
> CXX      xlc++_r
> CXXFLAGS -I/usr/local/include
>
> make
> [chomp]
>   CC       sdiff.o
>   CCLD     sdiff
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: @4@null_action
> ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more
> information.
> 1586-347 (U) An error occurred during linking of the object produced by
> the IPA Link step.  The link return code was 8.
> Makefile:1132: recipe for target 'sdiff' failed
>
> $ which ld
> /usr/bin/ld
> $ /usr/bin/ld -V
> /usr/bin/ld: LD 7.1.3(4/1/14)
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