# 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 . # 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" dlext="o" # Trying to set this breaks the POSIX.c compilation # Make setsockopt work correctly. See man page. # ccflags='-D_BSD=44' # uname -m output is too specific and not appropriate here case "$archname" in '') archname="$osname" ;; esac case "$osvers" in 3*) d_fchmod=undef ccflags="$ccflags -D_ALL_SOURCE" ;; *) # These hints at least work for 4.x, possibly other systems too. ccflags="$ccflags -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE" case "$cc" in *gcc*) ;; *) ccflags="$ccflags -qmaxmem=16384" ;; esac nm_opt='-B' ;; esac # These functions don't work like Perl expects them to. d_setregid='undef' d_setreuid='undef' # Changes for dynamic linking by Wayne Scott # # Tell perl which symbols to export for dynamic linking. case "$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 "$cc" in gcc) ;; cc_r) ;; cc|xlc_r) echo >&4 "Switching cc to cc_r because of POSIX threads." # xlc_r has been known to produce buggy code in AIX 4.3.2. # (e.g. pragma/overload core dumps) # --jhi@iki.fi cc=cc_r if test ! -e /bin/cc_r; then cat >&4 <&4 < UU/use64bits.cbu <<'EOCBU' case "$use64bits" in $define|true|[yY]*) case "`oslevel`" in 3.*|4.[012].*) cat >&4 <& "AIX $ldflags mystery" ; exit 1 # Just don't ask me how AIX does it. # Therefore the line re-evaluating ldflags: it seems to bypass # the whatever it was AIX managed to break. --jhi ldflags="`echo $ldflags`" libswanted="$libswanted `getconf XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG_LIBS 2>/dev/null|sed -e 's@^-l@@' -e 's@ -l@ @g'`" # When a 64-bit cc becomes available $archname64 # may need setting so that $archname gets it attached. ;; esac EOCBU # This script UU/uselongdouble.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure # after it has prompted the user for whether to use long doubles. cat > UU/uselongdouble.cbu <<'EOCBU' case "$uselongdouble" in $define|true|[yY]*) ccflags="$ccflags -qlongdouble" ;; esac EOCBU # EOF