For those of us who haven't bought xlc, here's a quick patch for Configure to compile OpenSSL for 64bit using GCC on AIX5 ... Passed 'make test' results fine ...
(attached patch) -Brad
--- Configure 2005-08-02 06:59:42.000000000 -0400 +++ ../Configure 2005-12-29 15:58:10.000000000 -0500 @@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ #### IBM's AIX. "aix3-cc", "cc:-O -DB_ENDIAN -qmaxmem=16384::(unknown):AIX::BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR:::", "aix-gcc", "gcc:-O -DB_ENDIAN::-D_THREAD_SAFE:AIX::BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR::aix_ppc32.o::::::::::dlfcn:", +"aix64-gcc", "gcc:-O -maix64 -DB_ENDIAN::-D_THREAD_SAFE:AIX::SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHAR::aix_ppc64.o::::::::::dlfcn:aix-shared:::.so.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR)::-X 64", # Below targets assume AIX 5. Idea is to effectively disregard $OBJECT_MODE # at build time. $OBJECT_MODE is respected at ./config stage! "aix-cc", "cc:-q32 -O -DB_ENDIAN -qmaxmem=16384::-qthreaded:AIX::BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR::aix_ppc32.o::::::::::dlfcn:aix-shared::-q32:.so.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR)::-X 32",
