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Hi, |
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Very good! I will look at the two references and let you know how I fair. I hit a stumbling block yesterday using the "Solaris" approach and was about to ask for help but I'll not do that at this point. |
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As I mentioned, I have done a lot with AIX and I'm really wanting this to work out. Please feel free to ping me about AIX questions and I'll try to help. I don't know much about libtool and autoconf. That is where I get lost. |
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Perry |
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On Dec 10, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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> Hi Perry! |
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> On 12/09/2010 06:06 PM, Perry Smith wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I've been working in and on AIX since 1988 and have built many open source packages. |
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>> Recently I wanted a structure to help me out and I discovered Gentoo's Portage and the postfix port of it. |
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>> What follows is a small log of what I have done so far hoping it will help others in the future. |
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>> I have a few questions at the end. |
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> <snip> |
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> At the moment I'm doing an update on Prefix to work for AIX again, |
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> specifically for AIX 6.1 where I have access to for a few months. |
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> However, the (currently failing) Prefix snapshots run on AIX 5.3. |
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>> I am roughly following the sets in the instructions for Solaris but I've hit a few very minor bumps in the road. |
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> Unfortunately, all the bootstrap guides found for Solaris, Linux, OSX and |
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> others are not really intended to work for AIX. |
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> Instead, please use prefix-launcher[1] for AIX, where release 2.1.0 should |
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> do for AIX 5.3. |
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> Right now I've filled the mediawiki page there [2] with some howto, |
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> any help to improve that is appreciated. |
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> <snip> |
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>> 3) My biggest question, before I get too deep is about binutils. |
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>> I see it coming up on the todo list. |
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>> I'm sure that I want to use AIX's ld(1) and as(1). |
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>> Should I not install binutils? |
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>> I know this is new territory but thought I would ask for some advice. |
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> Currently, Gentoo Prefix uses native ld and as on AIX. |
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> However, GNU binutils recently reclaimed to work on AIX, but I've not tested that yet. |
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> [1] http://prefix-launcher.sourceforge.net/ |
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> [2] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/prefix-launcher/index.php?title=Main_Page |
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> HTH, |
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> /haubi/ |
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> -- |
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> Michael Haubenwallner |
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> Gentoo on a different level |
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