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> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:44:29 -0600
> From: ha...@persoftware.com
> To: dbi-users@perl.org
> Subject: Error running "make" on AIX 5.3
>
> I have been unable to install DBI on our AIX 5.3 using either CPAN ("out
> of memory") or the "perl Makefile.PL" method. I've read the entire
> thread started by Don Walters on this subject begun on 3 Aug 2012, and
> it looks like his problem boiled down to his cc_r being linked to gcc.
> Mine is linked to xlc, as it should be. My perl is 5.8.8. The results
> from my Makefile.PL run are in the attached file "makefile.tst". They
> look normal to me. The installation fails during "make", which dies
> with the error "lib/DBD/Gofer.pm:841: Unknown command paragraph
> "=encoding ISO8859-1"" Here is the output from "make".
>
> /usr/bin/perl /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap
> /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap DBI.xs >
> DBI.xsc && mv DBI.xsc DBI.c
> cc_r -c -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE
> -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32
> -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong -O -DVERSION=\"1.622\"
> -DXS_VERSION=\"1.622\"
> "-I/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.8/aix-thread-multi/CORE" DBI.c
> Running Mkbootstrap for DBI ()
> chmod 644 DBI.bs
> rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.so
> ld -bhalt:4 -bexpall -G -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc DBI.o -o
> blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.so
> chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.so
> cp DBI.bs blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.bs
> chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/DBI/DBI.bs
> /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" dbiprof.PL dbiprof
> Extracted dbiprof from dbiprof.PL with variable substitutions.
> /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" dbiproxy.PL dbiproxy
> Extracted dbiproxy from dbiproxy.PL with variable substitutions.
> /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" dbilogstrip.PL dbilogstrip
> Extracted dbilogstrip from dbilogstrip.PL with variable substitutions.
> cp dbiprof blib/script/dbiprof
> /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)"
> blib/script/dbiprof
> cp dbiproxy blib/script/dbiproxy
> /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)"
> blib/script/dbiproxy
> cp dbilogstrip blib/script/dbilogstrip
> /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::MY" -e "MY->fixin(shift)"
> blib/script/dbilogstrip
> Manifying blib/man1/dbiprof.1
> Manifying blib/man1/dbiproxy.1
> Manifying blib/man1/dbilogstrip.1
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Response.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Proxy.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Transport::Base.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::DBM.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Serializer::DataDumper.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfoType.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD::Metadata.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfo::ODBC.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::pipeone.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProfileDumper::Apache.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::File.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::File::Roadmap.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Util::CacheMemory.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProfileSubs.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::File::HowTo.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD::SqlEngine::HowTo.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::Base.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::corostream.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::FAQ.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::rush.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::SQL::Nano.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Request.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfo::ANSI.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::stream.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::classic.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Transport::stream.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Storable.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::Base.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfoReturn.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Sponge.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::pedantic.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Transport::pipeone.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD::SqlEngine::Developers.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::W32ODBC.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::null.3
> Manifying blib/man3/Bundle::DBI.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBD::File::Developers.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Profile.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProfileDumper.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProxyServer.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::Gofer::Execute.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD.3
> Manifying blib/man3/Win32::DBIODBC.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::DBD::SqlEngine.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::PurePerl.3
> Manifying blib/man3/DBI::ProfileData.3
>
> Any help that you could give me with getting this installed would be
> appreciated. We plan to be using MySQL.
>
> Harry Jamieson
> PER Software
>
