Re: Reviving pkgsrc for (modern-ish) AIX

[Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost>]

On 5/20/25 11:52 AM, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> On 5/19/25 7:17 PM, Brian Callahan wrote:
> > Hi all --
> >
> > Thomas alerted me to the existence of a thread based on my blog post 
> > prior to my joining the list, so apologies for creating a new thread.
> >
> > Thanks for the hints. I'll note that I did not modify my /opt/pkg/etc/ 
> > mk.conf other than what the diff from the blog post adds (and I also 
> > added MAKE_JOBS=3). I am away the next few days but I will try some of 
> > these out when I am back. Thomas also gave me some hints to fix the 
> > cosmetic AIX 2 vs AIX 7.2 issue which I also hope to fix when I am back.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ~Brian
>
>
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Excited to see interest in pkgsrc on AIX!
>
> I periodically re-bootstrap my AIX 7.2 machine to see if I can get perl 
> to build. Unfortunately it doesn't.
>
> I'm using gcc10 from the AIX open source toolbox repo (rpms).
>
> As of a few days ago I can bootstrap but cannot get perl to build and 
> that just leaves things dead-in-the-water.
>
> My setup is below. Is there a link to your blog post?

Brian - I found the blog post and it's very interesting.

But were you able to build lang/perl5 with this lyin', fake-clang setup?

Perl seems to have major problems with the linker more than the 
compiler. I'm curious if you're able to build it.

Louis