I see no reason why this would be an unpopular post. It shows you being resourceful and trying to fix a problem (or a whole host of problems), and then telling us about it in the hopes of helping some other unfortunate monk faced with the same problem.

Those of us who have experience porting various GNU & non-GNU open source / free software (I hear the GNU gnu starting to hyperventilate on my using open source and free software in the same context :) ) to various vendor Unices perfectly understand your frustration with this.

It's a small help (if any), but I tip my hat to you for tackling such a gnarly problem and, despite growing frustration, still managing an informative post about it.

Needless to say, if you ever get it to compile under your conditions, there will be many people interested in how you did it :)

CU
Robartes-