As a point of fact jesuashok, chinna raises a valid question. As g0n points out the answer is "it depends." I have personally lived with the frustration of getting things to port to AIX when there are compiler mismatches between libraries I'm dependant on and the compiler I am using to port with.

If you're the schlub that has maintained the machine and know the history you're in luck. Some of us though inherit machines that have passed many through many hands and have had all sorts of sins committed on them.

So chinna, I feel for you. You'll have to do some homework and find out some things about the system you are installing the modules on. If you do a perl -V on the target system it will yield some very useful information. I don't have access to an AIX box at the moment but here is what it looks like on a Linux box:

[pberghol@cowdawg pberghol]$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 6) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.22-1.2149.nptlsmp, archname=i686-linux uname='linux cowdawg 2.4.22-1.2149.nptlsmp #1 smp wed jan 7 12:51: +51 est 2004 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux ' config_args='' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultipl +icity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/includ +e -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/i +nclude/gdbm' ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1)', + gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1 +2 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', + lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl. +a gnulibc_version='2.3.2' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under linux Compiled at Jan 11 2005 11:44:30 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .

Note the inclusion of not only the compiler and its version, but there is useful information about the libraries linked in, the options used to build Perl and other useful info.

HTH


Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg

In reply to Re^2: Module Installation for AIX by blue_cowdawg
in thread Module Installation for AIX by chinna

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