I am looking for help with a problem installing the MQseries-1.34 Perl API.

I had successfully installed it in our sandpit server, then moved onto our development server and had an issue with the Makefile resulting in a looping zombie process requiring the server to be rebooted.

I then had the sandpit server rebuilt to mirror development and have reproduced the issue on the sandpit server.

After installing required pre-requisites, here is what I see for the Makefile….

$ sudo perl Makefile.PL verbose
Password:
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
  ABSTRACT => q[Interface to IBM's MQSeries Product]
  AUTHOR => q[MQ Engineering Group <mqseries@cpan.org>]
  NAME => q[MQSeries]
  PREREQ_PM => { Params::Validate=>q[1.00], Test::Simple=>q[0.62], Con
+vert::EBCDIC=>q[0.06], Test::Pod=>q[1.20] }
  VERSION_FROM => q[MQSeries.pm]
Using PERL=/usr/bin/perl
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….it does not respond beyond this point and continues looping indefinitely. Additional info below

AIX version

$ oslevel -s
6100-08-03-1339
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MQ version

(0)mqm@rs6stech02:/home/mqm: dspmqver
Name:        WebSphere MQ
Version:     7.0.1.7
CMVC level:  p701-107-111117
BuildType:   IKAP - (Production)
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Perl installation

$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=aix, osvers=5.3.0.0, archname=aix-thread-multi
    uname='aix akash79 3 5 00011a85d600 '
    config_args='-desr -Dinstallprefix=/usr/opt/perl5 -Dprefix=/usr/op
+t/perl5 -Dcc=xlc_r -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc_r', ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURC
+E -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -
+q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=
+-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT'
    ccversion='9.0.0.2', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags =' -brtl -bdynamic -b32'
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lbind -lnsl -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthrea
+ds -lc -lbsd
    perllibs=-lbind -lnsl -ldl -lld -lm -lcrypt -lpthreads -lc -lbsd
    libc=, so=a, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='  -bE:/usr/
+opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/CORE/perl.exp'
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bhalt:4 -bexpall -G -bnoentry -lpthrea
+ds -lc'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
                        USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under aix
  Compiled at Jun  2 2009 16:11:40
  @INC:
    /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi
    /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8
    /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi
    /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl
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Can you please help me identify where I have gone wrong or offer me a workaround ?