Re: Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7825 on aix 4.2.1.0 (UNINSTALLED)

Message-Id: <20001204122118.E85D.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>

AIX 4.2 (using latest patchlevels on 20001130) has a broken bind
library (getprotobyname and getprotobynumber are outversioned by
the same calls in libc, at least for xlc version 3.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7973

diff --git a/hints/aix.sh b/hints/aix.sh
index 35ee662..b14aad0 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/aix.sh
+++ b/hints/aix.sh
@@ -163,6 +163,20 @@ case "$osvers" in
     lddlflags="$lddlflags -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:\$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:\$(BASEEXT).exp -b noentry -lc"
     ;;
 esac
+# AIX 4.2 (using latest patchlevels on 20001130) has a broken bind
+# library (getprotobyname and getprotobynumber are outversioned by
+# the same calls in libc, at least for xlc version 3...
+case "`oslevel`" in
+    4.2.1.*)  # Test for xlc version too, should we?
+      case "$ccversion" in    # Don't know if needed for gcc
+          3.1.4.*)    # libswanted "bind ... c ..." => "... c bind ..."
+              set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ bind\( .*\) \([cC]\) / \1 \2 bind /'`
+              shift
+              libswanted="$*"
+              ;;
+          esac
+      ;;
+    esac
 
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