1 Here are a few tips from James MacLean on
2 making Bacula work on an AIX system -- 15 Mar 2003:
6 I expect that an AIX with all the latest patches and a proper gcc will
7 compile. It is a boring story as Kern knows :), but here are the
10 I have had success with :
13 Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.5.0/egcs-2.91.60/specs
14 gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)
16 Which was installed from www-frec.bull.com. But with that release, it
17 collides with sys/types.h from AIX and I had to redefine on my own in
21 typedef int __daddr_t;
22 typedef unsigned int class_id_t;
24 With that I have had all parts of bacula running and did backups and a
27 So I then went to IBM's own (current) gcc :
29 /opt/freeware/GNUPro/bin/gcc -v
30 Reading specs from /opt/freeware/GNUPro/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/2.9-aix51-020209/specs
31 gcc version 2.9-aix51-020209
33 from http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html
35 And found that it was not creating libbac.a correctly. Since then I've
36 been trying to compile my own gcc only to find out last night after I
37 broke down and looked at the GCC docs that there was a known bug in the
38 AIX "as" compiler, for which there was a patch, and I have since applied.
40 So now I am trying again to compile my own gcc, so that I can then try to
41 compile Bacula and be comfortable that all is well with the latest Bacula
44 We are at AIX oslevel 4.3.3.0, so even though we brought it right up to
45 date 150 days ago, there is already 250Megs of patches for it :(. So there
46 may be more to this story :).
48 Bottom line is, yes it does work :), but because of our intstallation
49 here, your setup might need to be tweaked to compile it... Then again it
52 How's that for a confusing Saturday story ;).