
h.m.brand at xs4all
Jan 14, 2006, 12:41 AM
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:44:03 -0800, "Alan Olsen" <olsena [at] odscompanies> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:43 -0600, Steve Peters wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:54:20PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:35:54 -0600, Steve Peters <steve [at] fisharerojo> > > > wrote: > > > > There are a *lot* of tickets opened in the past related to building > > > > Perl on AIX which appear to be mainly closable, but I have no way to > > > > confirm this. > > > > > > I might, and Campo might be pingable again too by now > > > > > > > If some kind soul would like to help with this, I'd > > > > be happy to provide ticket numbers for testing with. > > > > > > And what to test. AIX is not my fav platform to travel > > > around on in dark corners. > > > > > > > The majority of the tickets are just trying to compile Perl on various > > versions of AIX with various version of the AIX cc and gcc. No real > > dark corners. That's why I'm assuming that most of the bugs are > > closable. > > It also turns out that if you give it the information about gcc on the > command line, it works fine. The problem occurs when Perl tries to > detect it on its own. That's done in hints/aix.sh (or aix3.sh or aix4.sh). It's really complicated stuff, and I'd appreciate feedback on where this can be improved. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: smokers-reports [at] perl, perl-qa [at] perl
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