Re: Kannel on AIX

On 01.07.2008, at 13:47, Stipe Tolj wrote:

> Bostock James schrieb:
>
>> I also tried building using the native AIX compiler which, in  
>> addition to the above changes, requires that all the C++-style  
>> comments be converted to C-style comments (there's probably a  
>> compiler switch that allows C++-style comments but by default they  
>> are rejected).
>> The build system assumes gcc (for the generation of include  
>> dependencies via the -MM option) which is unfortunate.


C++ styles in a C program are in any case bad. Where are they?

>>
>
> did the AIX native C compiler work with changes on configure.in?
>
> We can add support for AIX directly to configure.in I guess, since  
> we handle some fractions of platform specific parts already inside:
>
> case "$host" in
>  *-sun-solaris*)
>    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DSunOS=1"
>    ;;
>  *-cygwin*)
>    EXE_EXT=".exe"
>    ;;
>  *apple-darwin*)
>    # MacOS X
>    [...]
>    ;;
>  *-linux-*)
>    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_BSD_SOURCE"
>    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -rdynamic"
>    ;;
>  *-*-openbsd* | *-*-freebsd*)
>    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -pthread"
>    AC_CHECK_LIB(c_r, pthread_exit, [LIBS="$LIBS -lc_r";  
> pthread="yes"])
>    AC_CHECK_LIB(kse, pthread_exit, [LIBS="$LIBS -lkse";  
> pthread="yes"])
>    ;;
> esac
>
> If you can provide a normal ssh account for me to board a  
> corresponding box, I'd be willing to work it out on the machine, so  
> we have it supported out-of-the-box.
>
> Stipe
>
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