Re: AIX compilation error

"Horne, Bill" <[email protected]> writes:

> Apologies in advance if this is not the appropriate forum ....

Nope, you got it right. This is the place for both user- and dev-
questions.


> I hit the following error when attempting to compile xerces-p on AIX 5.2
> with VisualAge compiler v5 any ideas? 

Hmmmm.... You are the first person I know of who has attempted this
OS/compiler combination, so we may need different flags for the AIX
hints file.

> Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lxerces-c

Nope, not harmless (damn Perl) - libxerces is not in you library
path. Even if you do get it to compile it won't link.

> cc -c -I. -IHandler
> -I/backup/Xerces/c/xerces-c_2_3_0-AIX51_6.00/include -D_REENTRANT -O
> -DVERSION=\"0.10\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.10\" -I/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.
> 0/aix/CORE PerlCallbackHandler.cpp
> 
> "/usr/vacpp/include/stdlib.h", line 123.13: 1540-0040 (S) The text "llabs"
> is unexpected.  "undef" may be undeclared or ambiguous.

Looks like there is a #define conflict between Perl and the system
header files.

> "PerlCallbackHandler.cpp", line 23.18: 1540-1102 (W) "callbackObj" might be
> used  before it is set.

???

This might be a consequence of the first problem. Otherwise I'm
confused.

Cheers,
jas.