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authorRainer Tammer <tammer@tammer.net>2009-08-19 08:00:07 +0200
committerDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2009-08-22 16:38:24 +0100
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downloadperl-ef2afd11e168b7b11468f1f8ba6c5cf2af0c7552.tar.gz
bleed and 5.10.1 - documentation fix - README.aix add info the lib gdbm is automatically removed + remove trailing blanks
please could you add this to bleed and maint-5.10 ? It's only a documentation fix and a formating cleanup... this should not break anything :-)) Thanks very much. Bye Rainer Signed-off-by: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> (cherry picked from commit e9d2e818e09bc1bed6b2109f74fcc75ceb03eb76)
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@@ -41,28 +41,29 @@ XL C and XL C/C++ V7, V8, V9, V10
The XL C for AIX is integrated in the XL C/C++ for AIX compiler.
-If you choose XL C/C++ V9 you need APAR IZ35785 installed
-otherwise the integrated SDBM_File do not compile correctly due
-to an optimization bug. You can circumvent this problem by
-adding -qipa to the optimization flags (-Doptimize='-O -qipa').
-The PTF for APAR IZ35785 which solves this problem is available
+If you choose XL C/C++ V9 you need APAR IZ35785 installed
+otherwise the integrated SDBM_File do not compile correctly due
+to an optimization bug. You can circumvent this problem by
+adding -qipa to the optimization flags (-Doptimize='-O -qipa').
+The PTF for APAR IZ35785 which solves this problem is available
from IBM (April 2009 PTF for XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition for AIX, V9.0).
-Perl can be compiled with either IBM's ANSI C compiler or with gcc.
-The former is recommended, as not only it can compile Perl with no
-difficulty, but also can take advantage of features listed later
+Perl can be compiled with either IBM's ANSI C compiler or with gcc.
+The former is recommended, as not only it can compile Perl with no
+difficulty, but also can take advantage of features listed later
that require the use of IBM compiler-specific command-line flags.
-If you decide to use gcc, make sure your installation is recent and
-complete, and be sure to read the Perl INSTALL file for more gcc-specific
-details. Please report any hoops you had to jump through to the
+If you decide to use gcc, make sure your installation is recent and
+complete, and be sure to read the Perl INSTALL file for more gcc-specific
+details. Please report any hoops you had to jump through to the
development team.
=head2 Incompatibility with AIX Toolbox lib gdbm
-If the AIX Toolbox version of lib gdbm 1.8.x is installed on the
-system then Perl will not work. This library contains a defect version
-of the dbm_store() function.
+If the AIX Toolbox version of lib gdbm 1.8.x is installed on the
+system then Perl will not work. This library contains a defect version
+of the dbm_store() function. The lib gdbm will be automatically removed
+from the wanted libraries.
=head2 Perl 5.10 was successfully compiled and tested on: