# hints/aix.sh # AIX 3.x.x hints thanks to Wayne Scott # AIX 4.1 hints thanks to Christopher Chan-Nui . # AIX 4.1 pthreading by Christopher Chan-Nui and # Jarkko Hietaniemi . # AIX 4.3.x LP64 build by Steven Hirsch # Merged on Mon Feb 6 10:22:35 EST 1995 by # Andy Dougherty # # Contact dfavor@corridor.com for any of the following: # # - AIX 43x and above support # - gcc + threads support # - socks support # # Apr 99 changes: # # - use nm in AIX 43x and above # - gcc + threads now builds # [(added support for socks) Jul 99 SOCKS support rewritten] # # Notes: # # - shared libperl support is tricky. if ever libperl.a ends up # in /usr/local/lib/* it can override any subsequent builds of # that same perl release. to make sure you know where the shared # libperl.a is coming from do a 'dump -Hv perl' and check all the # library search paths in the loader header. # # it would be nice to warn the user if a libperl.a exists that is # going to override the current build, but that would be complex. # # better yet, a solid fix for this situation should be developed. # # Configure finds setrgid and setruid, but they're useless. The man # pages state: # setrgid: The EPERM error code is always returned. # setruid: The EPERM error code is always returned. Processes cannot # reset only their real user IDs. d_setrgid='undef' d_setruid='undef' alignbytes=8 case "$usemymalloc" in '') usemymalloc='n' ;; esac # Intuiting the existence of system calls under AIX is difficult, # at best; the safest technique is to find them empirically. # AIX 4.3.* and above default to using nm for symbol extraction case "$osvers" in 3.*|4.1.*|4.2.*) usenm='undef' ;; *) usenm='true' ;; esac so="a" # AIX itself uses .o (libc.o) but we prefer compatibility # with the rest of the world and with rest of the scripting # languages (Tcl, Python) and related systems (SWIG). # Stephanie Beals dlext="so" # Take possible hint from the environment. If 32-bit is set in the # environment, we can override it later. If set for 64, the # 'sizeof' test sees a native 64-bit architecture and never looks back. case "$OBJECT_MODE" in 32) cat >&4 <&4 < # # Tell perl which symbols to export for dynamic linking. case "$cc" in *gcc*) ccdlflags='-Xlinker' ;; esac # the required -bE:$installarchlib/CORE/perl.exp is added by # libperl.U (Configure) later. case "$ldlibpthname" in '') ldlibpthname=LIBPATH ;; esac # The first 3 options would not be needed if dynamic libs. could be linked # with the compiler instead of ld. # -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp Read the exported symbols from the perl binary # -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp Export these symbols. This file contains only one # symbol: boot_$(EXP) can it be auto-generated? case "$osvers" in 3*) lddlflags="$lddlflags -H512 -T512 -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:\$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:\$(BASEEXT).exp -e _nostart -lc" ;; *) lddlflags="$lddlflags -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:\$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:\$(BASEEXT).exp -b noentry -lc" ;; esac # This script UU/usethreads.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure # after it has prompted the user for whether to use threads. cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOCBU' case "$usethreads" in $define|true|[yY]*) ccflags="$ccflags -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT" case "$cc" in gcc) ;; cc_r) ;; cc|xl[cC]_r) echo >&4 "Switching cc to cc_r because of POSIX threads." # xlc_r has been known to produce buggy code in AIX 4.3.2. # (e.g. pragma/overload core dumps) Let's suspect xlC_r, too. # --jhi@iki.fi cc=cc_r ;; '') cc=cc_r ;; *) cat >&4 < UU/uselargefiles.cbu <<'EOCBU' case "$uselargefiles" in ''|$define|true|[yY]*) lfcflags="`getconf XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG_CFLAGS 2>/dev/null`" lfldflags="`getconf XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG_LDFLAGS 2>/dev/null`" # _Somehow_ in AIX 4.3.1.0 the above getconf call manages to # insert(?) *something* to $ldflags so that later (in Configure) evaluating # $ldflags causes a newline after the '-b64' (the result of the getconf). # (nothing strange shows up in $ldflags even in hexdump; # so it may be something in the shell, instead?) # Try it out: just uncomment the below line and rerun Configure: # echo >&4 "AIX 4.3.1.0 $lfldflags mystery" ; exit 1 # Just don't ask me how AIX does it, I spent hours wondering. # Therefore the line re-evaluating lfldflags: it seems to fix # the whatever it was that AIX managed to break. --jhi lfldflags="`echo $lfldflags`" lflibs="`getconf XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG_LIBS 2>/dev/null|sed -e 's@^-l@@' -e 's@ -l@ @g`" case "$lfcflags$lfldflags$lflibs" in '');; *) ccflags="$ccflags $lfcflags" ldflags="$ldflags $lfldflags" libswanted="$libswanted $lflibs" ;; esac lfcflags='' lfldflags='' lflibs='' ;; esac EOCBU # This script UU/use64bitint.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure # after it has prompted the user for whether to use 64 bit integers. cat > UU/use64bitint.cbu <<'EOCBU' case "$use64bitint" in $define|true|[yY]*) case "`oslevel`" in 3.*|4.[012].*) cat >&4 < UU/use64bitall.cbu <<'EOCBU' # This script UU/use64bitall.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure # after it has prompted the user for whether to be maximally 64-bitty. case "$use64bitall" in $define|true|[yY]*) case "`oslevel`" in 3.*|4.[012].*) cat >&4 <&4 $cat >size.c < #include int main (void) { printf("%d\n",_system_configuration.width); return(0); } EOCP set size if eval $compile_ok; then lfcpuwidth=`./size` echo "You are running on $lfcpuwidth bit hardware." else dflt="32" echo " " echo "(I can't seem to compile the test program. Guessing...)" rp="What is the width of your CPU (in bits)?" . ./myread lfcpuwidth="$ans" fi $rm -f size.c size case "$lfcpuwidth" in 32*) cat >&4 < UU/uselongdouble.cbu <<'EOCBU' # This script UU/uselongdouble.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure # after it has prompted the user for whether to use long doubles. case "$uselongdouble" in $define|true|[yY]*) ccflags="$ccflags -qlongdouble" # The explicit cc128, xlc128, xlC128 are not needed, # the -qlongdouble should do the trick. --jhi d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*llg",(n),(x))' ;; esac EOCBU # If the C++ libraries, libC and libC_r, are available we will prefer them # over the vanilla libc, because the libC contain loadAndInit() and # terminateAndUnload() which work correctly with C++ statics while libc # load() and unload() do not. See ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs. # The C-to-C_r switch is done by usethreads.cbu, if needed. if test -f /lib/libC.a -a X"`$cc -v 2>&1 | grep gcc`" = X; then # Cify libswanted. set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ c / C c /'` shift libswanted="$*" # Cify lddlflags. set `echo X "$lddlflags "| sed -e 's/ -lc / -lC -lc /'` shift lddlflags="$*" fi # EOF