Compiling Samba using IBM's C compiler - IBM: AIX (2024)

when you run ./configure, can you paste us the configure.log?

Maybe its missing a dependency. Looks like a LOCALE issue....

Here's part of the output when I run configure:

checking whether building shared libraries actually works... cc: 1501-218 file shlib.po contains an incorrect file suffix
yes

There're no relevant warnings/errors in the config.log file ... grepping through the file leads to one relevant (?) line:
PICSUFFIX='po'

Not sure what to do next...

Can you please paste the 3 lines before and after this error?

So, far it looks like a missing openssh library...

I don't think it has anything to do with openssh ... I'm just running:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local

Using xlc I get the above errors ... if I use GCC then everything works just fine. And both are being run on the same fresh, basic AIX5.3 install (nothing except what comes with the base install + the two compilers). It has something to do with the .po suffix...

There's a bug (with a little more detail) posted on Samba's site about this issue:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3102

And here's the section of the config.log where the error/warning occurs:

|builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.*/
| char extattr_set_link ();
| /* The GNU C library defines this for functions which it implements
|to always fail with ENOSYS.Some functions are actually named
|something starting with __ and the normal name is an alias.*/
| #if defined (__stub_extattr_set_link) || defined (__stub___extattr_set_link)
| choke me
| #else
| char (*f) () = extattr_set_link;
| #endif
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| }
| #endif
|
| int
| main ()
| {
| return f != extattr_set_link;
|;
|return 0;
| }
configure:25231: result: no
configure:25261: checking ability to build shared libraries
configure:25638: result: true
configure:25640: checking linker flags for shared libraries
configure:25642: result: -Wl,-bexpall,-bM:SRE,-bnoentry,-berok
configure:25644: checking compiler flags for position-independent code
configure:25646: result: -O2
configure:25653: checking whether building shared libraries actually works
configure:25670: result: yes
configure:25679: checking for long long
configure:25698: cc -o conftest -O -D_SAMBA_BUILD_ -D_LINUX_SOURCE_COMPAT -qmaxmem=32000conftest.
c>&5
configure:25701: $? = 0
configure:25703: ./conftest
configure:25706: $? = 0
configure:25720: result: yes
configure:25734: checking for LL suffix on long long integers
configure:25756: cc -c -O -D_SAMBA_BUILD_ -D_LINUX_SOURCE_COMPAT -qmaxmem=32000conftest.c >&5
configure:25762: $? = 0
configure:25766: test -z
|| test ! -s conftest.err

Samba probally won't compile for xlc. It probally has GNUized code

Well, thanks for talking a look at it Mag0007.

I'll be upgrading to the latest version of xlc in the not too distant future (I'm currently on v6.0) and it's supposed to be more compatible with "GNUized code" so that may solve my problem.

IBM AIX 4.3.2 ppc avec gcc 3.2.3 :
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=powerpc -Wa,-many " CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=powerpc -Wa,-many -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba --with-extra-charsets=complex --enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile --with-named-z-libs=no --disable-shared

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IBM AIX 4.3.3 ppc avec xlC_r (IBM Visual Age C/C++ 6.0) :
CC=xlc_r CFLAGS="-ma -O2 -qstrict -qoptimize=2 -qmaxmem=8192" CXX=xlC_r CXXFLAGS ="-ma -O2 -qstrict -qoptimize=2 -qmaxmem=8192" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba --localstatedir=/usr/local/samba/data --libexecdir=/usr/local/samba/bin --with-extra-charsets=complex --enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile --with-named-z-libs=no --disable-shared --with-innodb

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IBM AIX 5.1.0 ppc avec gcc 3.3 :
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=powerpc -Wa,-many" CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=powerpc -Wa,-many -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba --with-extra-charsets=complex --with-server-suffix="-pro" --enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile --with-named-z-libs=no --disable-shared

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IBM AIX 5.2.0 ppc avec xlC_r (IBM Visual Age C/C++ 6.0) :
CC=xlc_r CFLAGS="-ma -O2 -qstrict -qoptimize=2 -qmaxmem=8192" CXX=xlC_r CXXFLAGS="-ma -O2 -qstrict -qoptimize=2 -qmaxmem=8192" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba --localstatedir=/usr/local/samba/data --libexecdir=/usr/local/samba/bin --with-extra-charsets=complex --enable-thread-safe-client --enable-local-infile --with-named-z-libs=no --disable-shared --with-embedded-server --with-innodb

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