Re: AIX 5.2: compiling problems

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:21:33PM +0200, Karl Voit wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I want to use GNU screen on an IBM AIX 5.2 system and I could not
> compile it:
> 
> ,----[ uname ]
> | address@hidden:/home/voitka/downloads/screen-4.0.2>uname -a
> | AIX uxibm275 2 5 0040801A4C00
> | address@hidden:/home/voitka/downloads/screen-4.0.2>
> `----
> 
> ./configure ... no problem so far
> 
> ,----[ make ]
> | misc.c:648: error: too few arguments to function `setenv'
> `----
> 
> Google-URLs found matching this problem:
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?14277
> http://tinyurl.com/rhs6y
> 
> I changed following part in order to get over it:
> 
> ,----[ misc.c - original part ]
> | #else /* USESETENV */
> | # if defined(linux) || defined(__convex__) || (BSD >= 199103)
> | )
> |   setenv(var, value, 1);
> | # else
> |   setenv(var, value);
> | # endif /* linux || convex || BSD >= 199103 */
> | #endif /* USESETENV */
> | }
> `----
> 
> First, I added the "|| defined(__aix__)" but obviously this did not
> change anything. Perhaps, "aix" is not the right term here.

Are you using gcc?

You can get the default DEFINEs out of gcc with this:

gcc -E -dM - </dev/null

Run that and grab an appropriate aix defined.

-- 
Michael Parson
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