Subj : Re: compiling for pthreads on AIX 5.2L
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : fred
Date : Mon Mar 07 2005 01:10 pm

to follow up on my own posting, I've found some info on ibm's web site
showing options to GCC for multithread programs, and it doesn't help
any. Given this trivial program:

#include <pthread.h>
main ()
	{
	exit (0);
	}

compiled thusly:

gcc -pthread -o fred.o fred.c

Here's a sample of the errors I'm getting:

In file included from fred.c:1:
/usr/include/pthread.h:556: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:559: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:563: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:566: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:569: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:572: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:575: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:578: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:581: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:585: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/pthread.h:588: error: parse error before '*' token

AFAICS this is the correct way to invoke GCC on AIX 5.2. I can't see
what would be going wrong here unless thre's something wrong with the
system. It's a brand new box, perhaps there are packages that aren't
installed that need to be?

AIX setup seems a black art, and

if there are things not installed (parts of BOS, e.g. other than libm.a
which I've already installed) I don't know how to tell.

As always, advice will be appreciated!

.