dear monks, i am in the process of doing a gcc build of Perl, but it wont let me through. A build with IBM's native xlc compiler is going well, but in this case gcc is necessary to not break the AIX freeware tree.

here ist the error in his full glory.

+ make
        echo @`sh  cflags "optimize='-O2 -g '" opmini.o`  -DPERL_IS_MI
+NIPERL -DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB opmini.c
@/usr/bin/gcc -maix32 -maix32 -c -DPERL_CORE -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_ALL_SOU
+RCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHRE
+AD_INIT -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LA
+RGE_FILES -O2 -g -Wall -DPERL_IS_MINIPERL -DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB opmini
+.c
In file included from op.h:636:0,
                 from perl.h:3903,
                 from op.c:103:
reentr.h:719:14: error: field '_spent_struct' has incomplete type
  struct spwd _spent_struct;
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
make: The error code from the last command is 1.

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the configure options

export OBJECT_MODE=32
export CC='/usr/bin/gcc -maix32'
export LDFLAGS="-s -Wl,-bmaxdata:0x80000000 -L/opt/freeware/lib -L/usr
+/lib"
./Configure -desr -Doptimize="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" \
        -d \
        -Dcc="$CC" -Dldflags="$LDFLAGS" \
        -Dinstallprefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix} \
        -Dprefix=%{_prefix} \
        -Duselargefiles \
        -Duseshrplib \
        -Dusethreads \
        -Darchname=%{_arch}-%{_os} \
        -A define:ld='/usr/bin/gcc -maix32' \
        -A define:ccdlflags='-brtl -bdynamic' \
        -A define:lddlflags='-bexpall -G -L/opt/freeware/lib'

make
#make test
( make -k check || true )

# build 64bit mode
export OBJECT_MODE=64
cd 64bit
export CC='/usr/bin/gcc -maix64'
export LDFLAGS="-s -Wl,-bmaxdata:0x80000000 -L/opt/freeware/lib64 -L/u
+sr/lib64 -L/opt/freeware/lib"

./Configure -desr -Doptimize="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" \
        -d \
        -Dcc="$CC" -Dldflags="$LDFLAGS" \
        -Dinstallprefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix} \
        -Dprefix=%{_prefix} \
        -Duselargefiles \
        -Duseshrplib \
        -Dusethreads \
        -Duse64bitall \
        -Darchname=%{_arch}-%{_os} \
        -A define:ld='/usr/bin/gcc -maix64' \
        -A define:ccdlflags='-brtl -bdynamic' \
        -A define:lddlflags='-bexpall -G -L/opt/freeware/lib64  -L/usr
+/lib64 -L/opt/freeware/lib'

make

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Is there any perl bugtracker where one can report this kind of errors? I dont know how to report compilation errors with perlbug.

In reply to Perl: AIX compile error by flynn7312

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