Re^2: AIX compile error pp

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Re^3: AIX compile error pp_sys.c by zwon (Abbot) on Jun 08, 2009 at 22:28 UTC
Like ikegami said you should check in your system's include directory. All these `gethost...` functions which are you getting warnings about should be declared in `netdb.h`, but for some reason they are not. Also this file should contain the definitions of various structures, e.g. `struct hostent`, and as these definitions wasn't included compiler can't determine memory size that it should allocate for these structures etc, that's why you're getting "dereferencing pointer to incomplete type" errors. I think that's the source of the problem.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: AIX compile error pp_sys.c by tdwilson58 (Initiate) on Jun 09, 2009 at 15:09 UTC
Thanks, that was the problem. There's a netdb.h file in /usr/include. I included it in the code, and it now compiles.	[reply]
Re^5: AIX compile error pp_sys.c by pemungkah (Priest) on Jun 09, 2009 at 16:19 UTC
This sounds like you've found both a bug and a potential fix in the AIX build process. If you're interested, you might want to try to see if you can integrate that into the hints file for the AIX build; the Perl5 Porters are currently in need of someone who has AIX to help solve some of the outstanding bugs there.	[reply]
Re^3: AIX compile error pp_sys.c by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 08, 2009 at 21:26 UTC
I think he meant in your system's include directory, not in the Perl distro.	[reply]