Re: Problems with iconv on AIX 5.3 and 6.1 - maybe a bug
| From: | Antony Dovgal | Date: | Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:00:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Problems with iconv on AIX 5.3 and 6.1 - maybe a bug | ||
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On 10/11/2010 10:35 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
> As to 5.3 - personally, I have some oldish PHP code that does not like
> some of the new defaults in 5.3 (as least when I tried when it first
> came out). However, I shall soon do 5.2.14.
I'd still recommend at least _to try_ 5.3 just to make sure it really does compile & work
fine.
If that is the case, you can start backporting AIX-related changes from 5.3 to 5.2.
> There is another AIX idiosycrancy I found. It does not like the
> BUILD_CLI string in the Makefile. If I edit it into seperate lines and
> put those where $(BUILD_CLI) stands, the sapi/cli/php program configures
> fine.
Make sure you use GNU make and as much other GNU utils as possible - the native ones are broken.
> Fun in porting :)
Well, I wouldn't call that fun.. it's more of a frustration to me.
> Off topic I know - but how much interest is there is a more explicit
> "debug" info of the BUILD_CLI issue. Personally I find it very strange
> as it used to work fine (the string does not look to have changed in a
> long time. I would guess it is some security 'improvement' in make or ksh.
GNU bash and GNU make should certainly fix it.
--
Wbr,
Antony Dovgal
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