Originally posted by: Edward Davignon

Upgrading to gettext-0.19.8.1-4 breaks diffutils-3.6-1

aix1$ LIBPATH= /opt/freeware/bin/sdiff --help
Could not load program /opt/freeware/bin/sdiff:
Could not load module /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.8).
        Dependent module /usr/lib/libiconv.a(libiconv.so.2) could not be loaded.
        Member libiconv.so.2 is not found in archive
Could not load module sdiff_64.
        Dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.8) could not be loaded.
aix1$ LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib /opt/freeware/bin/sdiff --version
sdiff (GNU diffutils) 3.6
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Thomas Lord.
aix1$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libiconv.a /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a /opt/freeware/bin/sdiff
file /usr/lib/libiconv.a is not owned by any package
libiconv-1.14-2.ppc
gettext-0.19.8.1-4.ppc
diffutils-3.6-1.ppc
aix1$ oslevel -s
7200-03-03-1914
aix1$

aix2$ LIBPATH= /opt/freeware/bin/sdiff --version
sdiff (GNU diffutils) 3.6
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Thomas Lord.
aix2$ LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib /opt/freeware/bin/sdiff --version
sdiff (GNU diffutils) 3.6
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Thomas Lord.
aix2$
aix2$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libiconv.a /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a /opt/freeware/bin/sdiff
file /usr/lib/libiconv.a is not owned by any package
libiconv-1.14-2.ppc
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.ppc
diffutils-3.6-1.ppc
aix2$ oslevel -s
7200-03-03-1914
aix2$

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Gettext "0.19.8.1-4" is enabled with GNU libiconv support. It now links with /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a (libiconv.so.2).

Some packages don't have proper LIBPATH set during compilation. Those packages search /usr/lib ( not in /opt/freeware/lib). 

The new gettext exposed those packages. Coreutils, Texinfo/info, sed, zip and now diffutils are some of the packages. 

We will fix diffutils and upload a new release soon.

Originally posted by: Edward Davignon

Thanks for your reply.

Originally posted by: JUN4_Paul_Zimmermann

Having the same issue regarding gnupg2 and logrotate from the IBM AIX toolbox.

I have worked around the issue by doing the below. 

With no real assistance from the IBM support case I raised.

# mv /usr/lib/libiconv.a /usr/lib/libiconv.a.ORIG
#
# cp -p /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a /usr/lib/libiconv.a
 

Originally posted by: T.Rex

On our machines, we have:

# ar tv /usr/lib/libiconv.a
rwxr-x---   300/300   234348 Mar  6 00:01 2019 shr4.o
rwxr-x---   300/300   234598 Mar  6 00:01 2019 shr.o

# ar -X64 tv /usr/lib/libiconv.a
rwxr-x---   300/300   310264 Mar  6 00:01 2019 shr4_64.o

# ar tv /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a
rwxr-xr-x   204/1     1261013 Dec 11 12:56 2019 libiconv.so.2
rwxr-x---     0/0     234348 Dec 11 14:55 2019 shr4.o
rwxr-x---     0/0     234598 Dec 11 14:55 2019 shr.o

# ar -X64 tv /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a
rwxr-x---     0/0     310264 Dec 11 14:55 2019 shr4_64.o
rwxr-xr-x   204/1     1305206 Dec 11 12:56 2019 libiconv.so.2

So that, with LIBPATH starting with /opt/freeware, programs needing AIX libiconv stuff can find it inside the /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a archive.

You could do the symmetric: add /opt/freeware libiconv.a stuff to /usr/lib/libiconv.a so that all programs will be happy.

That means:

# ar xv /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a
x - libiconv.so.2
x - shr4.o
x - shr.o
 
# ar -q /usr/lib/libiconv.a libiconv.so.2

# ar -X64 xv /opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a

x - shr4_64.o
x - libiconv.so.2

# ar -X64 -q /usr/lib/libiconv.a libiconv.so.2

In this order.