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I'm trying to port netperf4:

http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf4/...glib_migration

to AIX. I happen to have access to a system running 5.3 with:

# what `which cc`
/usr/vac/bin/cc:
61 1.14 src/bos/usr/ccs/lib/libc/__threads_init.c, libcthrd, bos510 7/11/00 12:04:14
IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0
5724-I11
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IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0
5724-I11
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IBM is a trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. in the U.S.,
other countries or both.
US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure
restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.
Version: 07.00.0000.0000
Level: 040805, 2004/08/05 18:40:13


I have downloaded and installed a number of RPMs from the Bull
freeware site for GNOME 2.12 to satisfy netperf4's dependency on
libxml2 and glib-2.0:

# rpm -qa
cdrecord-1.9-4
mkisofs-1.13-4
AIX-rpm-5.3.0.0-1
wget-1.9.1-1
pkg-config-0.19-2
gettext-0.10.40-5
glib2-2.8.1-2
glib2-devel-2.8.1-2
intltool-0.34.1-1
zlib-1.2.3-1
libxml2-2.6.21-1
zlib-devel-1.2.3-1
libxml2-devel-2.6.21-1

(There are some in the list that were already installed and not part
of the dependency chain started by netperf4) and then configured
netperf4 and tried to build it but the compiler became rather unhappy:

Making all in src
source='nettest_bsd.c' object='nettest_bsd.lo' libtool=yes depfile='.deps/nettest_bsd.Plo' tmpdepfile='.deps/nettest_bsd.TPlo' depmode=aix /bin/sh ../depcomp /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DLIBDIR="\"/usr/local/lib\"" -DNETPERFDIR="\"/usr/local/share/netperf\"" -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/opt/freeware/include/libxml2 -I/opt/freeware/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/freeware/lib/glib-2.0/include -c -o nettest_bsd.lo `test -f 'nettest_bsd.c' || echo './'`nettest_bsd.c
cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DNETPERFDIR=\"/usr/local/share/netperf\" -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/opt/freeware/include/libxml2 -I/opt/freeware/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/freeware/lib/glib-2.0/include -c -M nettest_bsd.c -DPIC -o .libs/nettest_bsd.o
"/opt/freeware/include/glib-2.0/glib/gutils.h", line 239.15: 1506-277 (S) Syntax error: possible missing ';' or ','?
"/opt/freeware/include/glib-2.0/glib/gutils.h", line 249.3: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
"/opt/freeware/include/glib-2.0/glib/gutils.h", line 237.1: 1506-485 (S) Parameter declaration list is incompatible with declarator for inline.

which seems to correspond to some issue with "G_INLINE_FUNC" I'm not
sure if the "problem" is in the glib bits, or in the compiler -
perhaps I'm using too old a compiler? I've heard that one has to be
cognizant of the name by which one invokes the compiler?

Any gentle taps with a nerf cluebat would be most welcome,

rick jones
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You might try GCC for a compiler...
It is "Gnu aware" and may be more compatible with the libs etc you
downloaded

Dave <dacooley@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might try GCC for a compiler...
> It is "Gnu aware" and may be more compatible with the libs etc you
> downloaded

If I can avoid it I really don't want to force anyone to use a
specific compiler, and rather like BIND, I want to be able to compile
netperf4 with the "platform" compiler. The idea is to have portable
code. And besides I have gcc exposure for netperf4 already via Linux
and OSX.

I've experimented a bit and found that saying:

CC=xlc ./configure

makes things rather happier trying to compile netperf4 than when it
was I suspect just defaulting to "cc". There were some issues with
DNS defines but I've worked-around those and am now in the process of
learning dbx to debug some core dumps I'm getting.

rick jones
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Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> wrote:
> makes things rather happier trying to compile netperf4 than when it
> was I suspect just defaulting to "cc". There were some issues with
> DNS defines but I've worked-around those and am now in the process of
> learning dbx to debug some core dumps I'm getting.

Which it seems stemmed from a library my program dlopened (via
g_module_open) wanting to call a function in the main program by name.
This I have learned is "problematic" under AIX (and Windows and
OpenVMS as it turns-out) and one needs to call via a function pointer.

So, between that, and finding I should use xlc_r since the application
is threaded, there is now a mostly working, synchronized,
multi-system, multiple-connection, multi-threaded netperf4 for AIX
(5.3 anyway)

http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf4/...glib_migration

rick jones
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