This libgo patch by Tony Reix passes a -X option to ar on AIX, so that it does the right object file handling. Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. Committed to mainline.
Ian
Index: gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE =================================================================== --- gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (revision 255062) +++ gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE (working copy) @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -1db7dc97d01ee230ff4874ce1c9775a24ffd16ac +57adb928c3cc61ac8fa47554394670a1c455afc2 The first line of this file holds the git revision number of the last merge done from the gofrontend repository. Index: libgo/go/cmd/go/internal/work/build.go =================================================================== --- libgo/go/cmd/go/internal/work/build.go (revision 254090) +++ libgo/go/cmd/go/internal/work/build.go (working copy) @@ -2757,7 +2757,14 @@ func (gccgoToolchain) pack(b *Builder, p absAfile := mkAbs(objDir, afile) // Try with D modifier first, then without if that fails. if b.run(p.Dir, p.ImportPath, nil, "ar", "rcD", absAfile, absOfiles) != nil { - return b.run(p.Dir, p.ImportPath, nil, "ar", "rc", absAfile, absOfiles) + if cfg.Goos == "aix" && cfg.Goarch == "ppc64" { + // AIX puts both 32-bit and 64-bit objects in the same archive. + // Tell the AIX "ar" command to only care about 64-bit objects. + // AIX "ar" command does not know D option. + return b.run(p.Dir, p.ImportPath, nil, "ar", "-X64", "rc", absAfile, absOfiles) + } else { + return b.run(p.Dir, p.ImportPath, nil, "ar", "rc", absAfile, absOfiles) + } } return nil } Index: libgo/go/go/internal/gccgoimporter/importer.go =================================================================== --- libgo/go/go/internal/gccgoimporter/importer.go (revision 254090) +++ libgo/go/go/internal/gccgoimporter/importer.go (working copy) @@ -104,12 +104,14 @@ func openExportFile(fpath string) (reade // TODO(pcc): Read the archive directly instead of using "ar". f.Close() closer = nil + var cmd *exec.Cmd - cmd := exec.Command("ar", "p", fpath) if runtime.GOOS == "aix" && runtime.GOARCH == "ppc64" { // AIX puts both 32-bit and 64-bit objects in the same archive. // Tell the AIX "ar" command to only care about 64-bit objects. - cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "OBJECT_MODE=64") + cmd = exec.Command("ar", "-X64", "p", fpath) + } else { + cmd = exec.Command("ar", "p", fpath) } var out []byte out, err = cmd.Output()