Re: Smoke 18378 aix 4.3.1.0 cc_r 5.0.2.0 (8 cpus)

I'm going to have to disable my single AIX smoke since it just keeps
failing in Configure and I have no time to debug it now for a few
weeks at least.  This is the very frustrating failure I get:

Could not load program ./try:
	Dependent module libc.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.
Could not load module libc.a(shr.o).
Error was: No such file or directory
 Unable to configure perl in this configuration

The "cool" thing?  If I add the option "-x" to this exec...

...
+ echo (Feeding myself to /usr/bin/bsh to avoid AIX 4's /bin/sh.)
+ exec /usr/bin/bsh ./Configure -Dusedevel -Duse64bitint -des

to trace what's going on, the whole following Configure run *FREEZES*
AND *KILLS* the underlying shell, not in the same spot, but in some
random spot.  (I'm thankful to be using the screen utility so that I
can always kill a hang up shell...)  My interactive shell under which
I was running the Configure really seems to go bye-bye, according to ps.
All in all, too "cool" for me to debug now.  (Smells like a broken /bin/bsh,
but I simply don't have the time to play with it now.)

The final insult to the injury is that *with* threads Configure
finishes just fine, it's the non-threads, and use64bitint builds
that hang as described above.

-- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special
biologist word we use for 'stable'.  It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen