used in Perl releases 5.6.1 and earlier or, for AIX releases 4.2 and
earlier. This change does break backward compatibility with compiled
modules from earlier perl releases. The change was made to make Perl
-more compliant with other applications like Apache/modperl which are
+more compliant with other applications like Apache/mod_perl which are
using the AIX native interface. This change also enables the use of C++
code with static constructors and destructors in perl extensions, which
was not possible using the emulated interface.
Follow the messages ... and you're done.
+If you like a more web-like approach, a good start point can be
+http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/downloadaz.jsp and click
+"C for AIX", and follow the instructions.
+
=head2 Using GNU's gcc for building perl
Using gcc-3.0 (tested with 3.0.4) now works out of the box, as do