RE: Informix, AIX 5.1 -- no joy w/ AIX C or gcc

From: Jay Hannah (jhannah_at_omnihotels.com)
Date: 10/20/03 

To: "'Priest, Darryl - BALTO'" <darryl.priest@piperrudnick.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:44:54 -0500

From: Priest, Darryl - BALTO [mailto:darryl.priest@piperrudnick.com]
> Did you build your own perl, or are you using the perl shipped with AIX?

I built 5.8.0 myself, first w/ AIX's C compiler (w/ all patches circa July 2003)

lslpp -l | grep "C for"
  vac.C 6.0.0.4 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
  vac.C.readme.ibm 6.0.0.1 COMMITTED C for AIX iFOR/LS Information
  vac.html.SBCS.search 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
  vac.html.common.search 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
  vac.html.en_US.C 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
  vac.html.en_US.search 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
  vac.lic 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Licence Files
  vac.msg.en_US.C 6.0.0.1 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler Messages -
  xlC.cpp 5.0.2.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Preprocessor
  xlC.msg.en_US.cpp 5.0.2.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Preprocessor
  vac.C 6.0.0.4 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
  vac.html.SBCS.search 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
  vac.html.common.search 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
  vac.html.en_US.search 6.0.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler

Then since that didn't work (and making gcc myself failed) I punted to an AIX RPM of gcc

gcc -v
  Reading specs from /usr/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/2.9-aix51-020209/specs
  gcc version 2.9-aix51-020209

> Perl and DBI / DBD::Informix must be compiled with the same compiler.

Indeed. I'm careful that I am doing all 3 on the same compiler.

> We're on AIX 5.2 and I built my own perl, not trusting the threaded perl version
> that IBM had shipped. Did you get DBI installed without problems? What about
> other modules?

Yes, everything seems fine w/ the install of Perl and DBI, except for warnings. Date::Calc, for instance, CPAN'd on no problem. Not being a C guru, I never know an ignorable warning vs. a deadly one, and for whatever reason compiling anything on AIX always seems to throw gobs of warnings...

> What's the output from perl -V?

You're replying to my 2nd post. My 1st one (15 minutes earlier) has exhaustive diagnostics in it, including "perl -V".

Thanks,

j