[5.8.1] maint @ 20845 OK on aix 4.2

Hi everybody,

thanks to patches #20842 and 20843,

maint builds fine on aix 4.2 :-)

First I used the defaults ( -Uusenm ), but I had the following failure

cc -o miniperl -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/gnu/lib \
    `echo  gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o pad.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o
reentr.o
hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o
regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o xsutils.o globals.o perlio.o
perlapi.o numeric.o locale.o pp_pack.o pp_sort.o  | sed 's/ op.o / /'` \
    miniperlmain.o opmini.o perl.o -lnsl -ldl -lld -lm -lc -lbind -lbsd
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .aintl
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .copysignl
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .syscall
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .eaccess
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .setresuid
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .setresgid
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .setproctitle
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more
information.
make: *** [miniperl] Error 8

after a little web search, I found the following

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-06/msg00329.html

which lead me to use a non-default Configure option for AIX.

after running;

make realclean
rm -f config.sh Policy.sh

I issued

sh Configure -Dusenm -des
             ^^^^^^^

and the build completes with

All tests successful.
u=10.98  s=6.6  cu=1236.53  cs=231.32  scripts=752  tests=75856

I'm going to give maint@20874 a try,

If this failure remains specific to my platform ( AIX 4.2 + vac 5.0.2.7 ),
I plan to send an hints/aix.sh patch.

FWIW, maint@20845 builds OK with all the defaults on AIX 4.3.3.75 + vac
5.0.2.0

Many thanks
José

• [5.8.1] maint @ 20845 OK on aix 4.2 by Jose.auguste-etienne