AIX porting, various levels, creating a DESTDIR build and related issues

2011-12-26 Thread Michael Felt
Hi all, I am getting back to doing recent ports to AIX 5.3+ and am running into various minor issues. I do not wish to call any of them a bug, but would like to discuss the best approach to get some modifications worked on so that they go away. This may be a modification in my understanding (aka

Re: AIX porting, various levels, creating a DESTDIR build and related issues

2011-12-26 Thread Michael Felt
Note: I created an AIX layout that I am using: # Adopt layout using /opt (read-only) filesystem conventions on AIX # Standard executables in /opt (shareable) # man pages at AIX standard location (/usr/share/man) # editable files, scripts in /etc and /var Layout AIX prefix:

Re: AIX porting, various levels, creating a DESTDIR build and related issues

2011-12-26 Thread Eric Covener
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Michael Felt mamf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am getting back to doing recent ports to AIX 5.3+ and am running into various minor issues. I do not wish to call any of them a bug, but would like to discuss the best approach to get some modifications w cc:

Re: AIX porting, various levels, creating a DESTDIR build and related issues

2011-12-26 Thread Michael Felt
Thank you. Just have to figure out where this fits :p. I have never really understood libtool (:p and I wonder if libtool has ever really understood AIX.) What I do recall is that in apr there is a single reference to AIX regarding shared libraries, and rather than use slibclean (shared library

Re: AIX porting, various levels, creating a DESTDIR build and related issues

2011-12-26 Thread Eric Covener
In the code snippet $^O is the file being installed? - and it is all written perl? Just the OS. I think we do this between make and make install in our scripts that drive the build. If I ever have to revisit, I'll probably make install DESTDIR=xxx individually and not treat expat and apr/apu as

Re: AIX porting, various levels, creating a DESTDIR build and related issues

2011-12-26 Thread Michael Felt
That may explain why the initial install into the DESTDIR fails, but what is failing (the cp (copies)) in the second example - after the regular install has been completed. FYI: two+ years ago (2.2.13 and 2.2.16 I did not have the second problem, but then I was using the Apache layout) Thanks,