On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Mike Meredith wrote:
> Just a few notes from building Exim (4.44+exiscan) on an AIX (5.3L) box ...
> in case someone else needs the info, or in case someone spots me doing
> something stupid (I'm new to AIX).
>
> 1 .. Change CC to gcc in OS/Makefile-AIX (no cc installed by default)
> 2 .. Change CFLAGS in OS/Makefile-AIX :-
> 1 .. Remove -D__STR31__ (this may not be necessary but it works without)
> 2 .. Add '-mcpu=power4 -maix64 -O3'
I'll do that; I suspect there are very few AIX Exim users; I certainly
have no access to an AIX system, so I just put in the config file what
people tell me to.
> 3 .. Edit src/exim.h and remove the guard around "#define SOCKLEN_T
> socklen_t" ... AIX has SOCKLAN_T defined in the standard headers
> as blank. Yes this should go in OS/os-AIX.h, but the change isn't
> effective there.
Why doesn't putting something in os-AIX.h work?
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