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H . Merijn Brand
Date:
May 4, 2001 02:16
Subject:
Re: Perl under AIX 4.3.3
Message ID:
20010504110437.E008.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:59:29 +0200, <Armin.Kunaschik@varetis.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> >I have no experience with this version of the compiler. AFAIK AIX 4.3 best
> >works with VAC.
> ibmcxx was released before vac 4.x and included a C and C++ compiler...
> but because there were problems with the makefile support of VAC++ 4 we
> used to
> stay with 3.6.6.
> 
> >Though I know 5.0.1.3 is available, but we didn't pay for it (yet)
> 5.0.2 is out some days... I have checked with this version (on another
> 4.3.3 host)
> and get the same results.
> 
> >which could imply that you are unable to run lslpp. DRAT!
> >(the fact that you included the output of lslpp proves otherwise: I'm
> puzzled)
> lslpp works everytime not depending on the user...
> 
> >I do not have 5.6.1 by hand right now. Can you check if this section is
> also in
> >hints/aix.sh?
> ibmcxx is not listed in the aix hint file. There was a bug in the
> optimization but
> as I remember it's already fixed... there should be no need to turn off
> optimization.
> 
> >HTH. (please try again with -Doptimize=none
> No change. Same compiler errors.
> 
> To show that it's not the compiler I have installed the latest 3.1.4 C
> compiler (3.1.4.10)
> on 4.3.3 and tried with your configure options.
> While installing the compiler precompiled headers are generated for 4.2...
> therefore
> I think AIX 4.3 is not supported by xlC 3.1.4.
> The output looks familiar:

Would the following have any effects to your problem?

On Thu, 3 May 2001 20:53:38 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, David Leigh wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was experiencing the same problem with perl 5.6.1, aix 4.3.3, and vac
> > 5.0.2.  But the problem disappears if you answer 'n' to using
> > /usr/bin/nm in Configure.  
> > Not sure where the bug is, but it's decent workaround.
> 
> If you think this is a fairly generic problem, you can set usenm in
> hints/aix.sh.  (It's a safe thing to do -- it causes Configure to take
> longer, but at least it's apparently more likely to get the right answer.)
> 
> This is the sort of thing that's extremely difficult for anyone without
> access to an AIX system to do much else about.  Why nm isn't  helping is
> beyond me.  Perhaps one of the lib/syscalls or whatever hooks that AIX
> uses has changed?
> 
> I confess I've been too swamped to follow through on the other info sent
> me, but if Configure -Uusenm fixes things, then let's go with that.

-- 
H.Merijn Brand    Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://www.amsterdam.pm.org/)
using perl-5.6.1, 5.7.1 & 623 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3,
     WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11 often with Tk800.022 &/| DBD-Unify
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/


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