more Compiler patches from Vishal Bhatia <vishalb@my-dejanews.com>

[perl5.git] / hints / aix.sh

# hints/aix.sh
# AIX 3.x.x hints thanks to Wayne Scott <wscott@ichips.intel.com>
# AIX 4.1 hints thanks to Christopher Chan-Nui <channui@austin.ibm.com>.
# AIX 4.1 pthreading by Christopher Chan-Nui <channui@austin.ibm.com> and
#         Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>.
# Merged on Mon Feb  6 10:22:35 EST 1995 by
#   Andy Dougherty  <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>


# Configure finds setrgid and setruid, but they're useless.  The man
# pages state:
#    setrgid: The EPERM error code is always returned.
#    setruid: The EPERM error code is always returned. Processes cannot
#             reset only their real user IDs.
d_setrgid='undef'
d_setruid='undef'

# Neither do these functions work like Perl expects them to.
d_setregid='undef'
d_setreuid='undef'

alignbytes=8

# Intuiting the existence of system calls under AIX is difficult, at best;
# the safest (and slowest...) technique is to find them empirically.
usenm='undef'

so="a"
dlext="so"

# Make setsockopt work correctly.  See man page.
# ccflags='-D_BSD=44'

# uname -m output is too specific and not appropriate here
case "$archname" in
'') archname="$osname" ;;
esac

case "$osvers" in
3*) d_fchmod=undef
    ccflags="$ccflags -D_ALL_SOURCE"
    ;;
*)  # These hints at least work for 4.x, possibly other systems too.
    ccflags="$ccflags -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE"
    case "$cc" in
     *gcc*) ;;
     *) ccflags="$ccflags -qmaxmem=8192" ;;
    esac
    nm_opt='-B'
    ;;
esac

# Changes for dynamic linking by Wayne Scott <wscott@ichips.intel.com>
#
# Tell perl which symbols to export for dynamic linking.
case "$cc" in
*gcc*) ccdlflags="$ccdlflags -Xlinker" ;;
esac
ccdlflags="$ccdlflags -bE:perl.exp"

# The first 3 options would not be needed if dynamic libs. could be linked
# with the compiler instead of ld.
# -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp  Read the exported symbols from the perl binary
# -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp        Export these symbols.  This file contains only one
#                           symbol: boot_$(EXP)  can it be auto-generated?
case "$osvers" in
3*) 
    lddlflags="$lddlflags -H512 -T512 -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp -e _nostart -lc"
    ;;
*) 
    lddlflags="$lddlflags -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp -b noentry -lc"
    ;;
esac

# This script UU/usethreads.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure 
# after it has prompted the user for whether to use threads.
cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOCBU'
case "$usethreads" in
$define|true|[yY]*)
        ccflags="$ccflags -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT"
        case "$cc" in
        xlc_r) ;;
        cc) 
	    echo >&4 "Switching cc to xlc_r because of POSIX threads."
	    cc=xlc_r
            ;;
        '' | cc_r)
	    cc=xlc_r
            ;;
        *)
 	    cat >&4 <<EOM
For pthreads you should use the AIX C compiler xlc_r.
(now your compiler was '$cc')
Cannot continue, aborting.
EOM
 	    exit 1
	    ;;
        esac

        # Add the POSIX threads library and the re-entrant libc.

        lddlflags=`echo $lddlflags | sed 's/ -lc$/ -lpthreads -lc_r -lc/'`

        # Add the c_r library to the list of wanted libraries.
        # Make sure the c_r library is before the c library or
        # make will fail.
        set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ c / c_r c /'`
        shift
        libswanted="$*"

        # Perl's malloc doesn't survive threaded AIX.
        case "$usemymalloc" in
        '') usemymalloc='n' ;;
        esac

	;;
esac
EOCBU