Michael Felt wrote: > Actually, the reason I started this thread is because I wanted to start > making builds that used IBM's installp format for distribution rather > than RPM - which is the format chosen for most of the AIX toolbox. Imho > much of the difficulity the libtool devs have with the AIX platform (as > generally the solution is playing with libtool, or loading a newer > version) is this mixed install environment. > > I have been trying to develop and package without using any of the AIX > toolbox as I do not want any dependencies on it. Instead, I shall, as > suggested towards the beginning of this thread, make my own packages to > fulfill dependancies and/or specify IBM installp packages (i.e. > libraries installed into /usr/lib and maybe /opt/lib). > > There are a couple of other respositories out there - my site - when I > finally get it assembled - will be yet another, but with forums behind > it so that people can share experiences.
One of the things that may be tripping you up is apr - for legacy reasons, apr is shipped included with httpd v2.2.x. However, for a long time now, binary distributions have been packaging apr and apr-util as completely separate packages, and httpd has been typically configured during these binary builds to use these external apr and apr-util packages. The apr and apr-util trees in httpd are therefore ignored. What I suggest you do is to try get AIX packaging to work on apr and apr-util first, and when that works, attempt to get httpd to work, depending on apr and apr-util as just-another-external-package. Completely ignore anything in the srclib directory, and assume those are system provided. You'll see similar scripts for producing rpms and solaris pkg files in the apr and apr-util trees. Regards, Graham --
