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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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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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Michael Haubenwallner |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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