narasimp has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I am trying to compile Proc::ProcessTable on AIX platform and i am seeing the following error. I have downloaded the latest available version of the module from cpan. 
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cc_r -q64 -c   -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem
+=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q64 -DUSE_
+64_BIT_ALL -q64 -D_AIX5_3_64_ -D_AIX5_3_ -DAIX64 -DAIX=5 -UUSE_CLEARC
+ASE -DBUILDBITS=64 -UCBR_OVII_REGISTERFPFILES -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C
+_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN
+ -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q64 -DUSE_64_BIT_ALL -q64 -D_AIX5_3_64_ -D_AIX5
+_3_ -DAIX64 -DAIX=5 -UUSE_CLEARCASE -DBUILDBITS=64 -UCBR_OVII_REGISTE
+RFPFILES -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -
+qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q64 -DUSE_64_BI
+T_ALL -q64 -D_AIX5_3_64_ -D_AIX5_3_ -DAIX64 -DAIX=5 -UUSE_CLEARCASE -
+DBUILDBITS=64 -UCBR_OVII_REGISTERFPFILES -O   -DVERSION=\"0.53\" -DXS
+_VERSION=\"0.53\"  "-I../.."   OS.c

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"OS.c", line 59.24: 1506-194 (S) Incomplete type is not allowed.
"OS.c", line 60.10: 1506-007 (S) "struct userinfo" is undefined.
"OS.c", line 71.41: 1506-043 (S) The operand of the sizeof operator is
+ not valid.
"OS.c", line 112.34: 1506-043 (S) The operand of the sizeof operator i
+s not valid.
"OS.c", line 113.34: 1506-043 (S) The operand of the sizeof operator i
+s not valid.
"OS.c", line 161.32: 1506-043 (S) The operand of the sizeof operator i
+s not valid.
gmake[2]: *** [OS.o] Error 1

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Please let me know your opinion or any ideas on how to fix this.

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Re: Proc::ProcessTable compilation error on AIX
by vinoth.ree (Monsignor) on Jan 06, 2016 at 09:47 UTC
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      Thanks, but i need to build it manually. this is one of the multiple modules which we need to build on all platforms. any idea on how to fix this error?
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        "OS.c", line 60.10: 1506-007 (S) "struct userinfo" is undefined.

        Some observations that may or may not be helpful to you:
        In the Proc-ProcessTable-0.53 source, the file os/aix.c #includes just the one header: 
        #include "os/aix.h"

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        Further down, in the same file, we find the declaration: 
        struct userinfo      uinfo;

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        and the error messages you got tell us that "struct userinfo" is not defined. This suggests that neither os/aix.h nor any of the header files that it pulls in define the "userinfo" struct.
        Yet, google suggests that the "userinfo" struct is to be found in /usr/include/procinfo.h, and os/aix.h definitely contains the line #include <procinfo.h>

        First, check to see whether your /usr/include/procinfo.h does define the userinfo struct.
        If it does not, then the question that needs to be answered is "Why is it missing ?".
        But if it does, then the question that needs to be answered is "How come I then get that error ?". (Is there another procinfo.h that gets loaded instead ?)

        There's a few guys on p5p who are familiar with (and interested in) aix, so I think it's worth asking there if you strike out here.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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