From: Kurt D. Starsinic <kstar@wolfetech.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:51:46 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Give up completely using nm in AIX.
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Give up completely using nm in AIX.
To: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org
Subject: [PATCH 5.005_54] AIX 4.3.1.0 fails to locate some functions
Message-ID: <19981210005146.B29986@O2.chapin.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2480
---

diff --git a/hints/aix.sh b/hints/aix.sh
index 25e2048..25e3e38 100644
--- a/hints/aix.sh
+++ b/hints/aix.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ alignbytes=8
 
 usemymalloc='n'
 
+# Intuiting the existence of system calls under AIX is difficult,
+# at best; the safest technique is to find them empirically.
+usenm='undef'
+
 so="a"
 dlext="so"
 
@@ -97,6 +101,6 @@ EOM
     # Make sure the c_r library is before the c library or
     # make will fail.
     set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ c / c_r c /'`
-    shift
+p    shift
     libswanted="$*"
 fi