[krbdev.mit.edu #7888] Error at configure time on AIX 7.1

[Julien ÉLIE via RT]

Hi,

Configuring krb5 1.12.1 fails on AIX 7.1 with the following error:

[...]
checking keyutils.h usability... no
checking keyutils.h presence... no
checking for keyutils.h... no
checking for keyutils.h... (cached) no
checking if va_copy is available... yes
checking if va_list objects can be copied by assignment... yes
configure: error: Shared libraries are not yet supported on this platform.


I tried both:
  ./configure
and:
  ./configure --disable-shared --enable-static

Same result.
Is there a special trick to build krb5 on AIX?  Why is configure
searching for a support of shared libraries even though
"--disable-shared --enable-static" is passed to configure?



I see in configure:

# avoid duplicate rules generation for AIX and such
SHLIBEXT=.so-nobuild

[...]

if test "$SHLIBEXT" = ".so-nobuild"; then
   as_fn_error $? "Shared libraries are not yet supported on this platform." "$LINENO" 5
fi


so maybe there is an issue here.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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