Re: Installing on AIX fails

> Re. building on AIX.
>
> For AIX I've found that it's just better to always rely on the
> freeware toolkit stuff, which comes on a separate toolkit CD and in
> any case can be downloaded from
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com:/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc
> These are RPMs that you install via RPM which comes pre-installed on
> AIX (or anyway is part of the standard AIX CDs).
>
> On my own build the make, install, tar (gtar), grep, come from the
> toolkit CD (the /usr/freeware/bin/ path). At least the first two seems
> definitely mandatory.
> Oh, and AIX /bin/sh is not particularly good - it's simpler to rely on
> bash from the toolkit.
>

> Gary Vaughan have posted patches which include
> updates that will improve the AIX experience. In addition to that, if
> you have the old XlC 5.0 compiler you will probably be better off at
> this point to use gcc from the toolkit. Otherwise you'll need those
> patches, and also one I posted which removes some C++ comments (I
> should probably re-post that one because it's not against the latest
> git repo version anymore).
>
> All that been said, I build on AIX as follows, using configure (which
> takes care of some other issues at the moment).
>
> SHELL_PATH=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
> PERL_PATH=/usr/local/special/bin/perl ./configure CC=cc
> CFLAGS=-Dinline=""
> and
> make SHELL_PATH=/opt/freeware/bin/bash PERL_PATH=/usr/local/special/bin/perl
> followed by the same, with 'install'
>
> That's with the old compiler and patches applied. Without patches
> you'll either have to rely on GCC (and remove those CC and CFLAGS
> lines, or change CC to gcc), or, with a newer (say, v10) IBM
> compiler), the -Dinline="" may not be needed.
>
> The only problem now is that some stuff (git rebase --interactive
> IIRC) will still not work, if you're on an AIX version with Perl 5.6
> (some things in git needs 5.8). AIX 6.1 has Perl 5.8, but some
> customers will downgrade to 5.6 because of bad performance problems
> with 5.8 on AIX.
>
> -Tor
>