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authorRainer Tammer <tammer@tammer.net>2010-01-18 11:43:07 +0100
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2010-01-18 13:15:32 +0100
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Perl blead on AIX - fail: t/porting/test_bootstrap
Hello, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:33:07AM +0100, Rainer Tammer wrote: > >> Hello, >> the 32 bit blead build looks quite good on AIX: >> >> A threaded, shared 32 bit build only produced one error: >> > Thanks for continuing to look out for AIX. > > No problem ... >> Is this a know error ?? >> > Yes, but I believe that I committed a change to fix it about 30 minutes ago. > > OK, I try this fix. I have also a fix for the GDBM problem. Now GDBM is only disabled if the "problem" headers are installed, e.g. if the gdbm rpm < 1.8.3-5 is installed. I have attached the patch for this. > Nicholas Clark > > > Bye Rainer From 4755db7f86c38d3c2b69c668c5747368e98c3eae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rainer Tammer <tammer@tammer.net> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:40:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Enabld GDBM on AIX if possible Signed-off-by: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
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@@ -60,10 +60,13 @@ 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. The lib gdbm will be automatically removed
-from the wanted libraries.
+If the AIX Toolbox version of lib gdbm < 1.8.3-5 is installed on your
+system then Perl will not work. This library contains the header files
+/opt/freeware/include/gdbm/dbm.h|ndbm.h which conflict with the AIX
+system versions. The lib gdbm will be automatically removed from the
+wanted libraries if the presence of one of these two header files is
+detected. If you want to bild Perl with GDBM support then please install
+at leas gdbm-devel-1.8.3-5 (or higher).
=head2 Perl 5.10 was successfully compiled and tested on:
@@ -470,6 +473,6 @@ Rainer Tammer <tammer@tammer.net>
=head1 DATE
-Version 0.0.10: 07 Aug 2009
+Version 0.0.11: 18 Jan 2010
=cut