Getting magick to compile on AIX with xlC and xlc

Rich Cook <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.image-magick.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
There are a couple of nasty errors you can get when compiling  
ImageMagick.
One of them is the dreaded:
"Macro name blahblahblah cannot be redefined."
This is fixed by appending the following to the CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS:
-qlanglevel=extended

Also, you might get an error due to the use of C++-style comments in  
straight C files.  Gnu compilers (gcc) allow this, and xlc does not.   
But you can permit it by adding this to CFLAGS:
-qcpluscmt

Hope this helps someone.  It took me a while to figure out.  I also  
hope this shows up on the web for googlers.  :-)

I'm not done compiling yet, but wanted to send this out to help.
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