Edit File: README.aix
Some notes for the AIX port =========================== 1. Known problems ----------------- There are the following known problems on AIX: 1) Shared libraries / embedded perl Up to (and including) net-snmp 5.4, configure forced a static build on AIX which caused embedded Perl to be disabled as well. Starting with net-snmp 5.4.1, we build shared libraries by default on AIX (like on any other platform) using run-time linking. configure forces the use of the required "-brtl" linker flag. With net-snmp 5.5 the shared library build is broken again but the there is no forced static build - use --disable-shared when building. 2) "grep: capacity exceeded" or "sed: Command line is too long" during configure The version of "grep" shipped with AIX versions up to (and including) 5.1 has a known limitation of only supporting a maximum of 2048 characters per line. This may cause a significant number of "grep: capacity exceeded" errors during configure which breaks the build. See bug 1367794 for details. The fix is to either install GNU grep (and have it in PATH before the AIX grep) or to upgrade to AIX 5.2 or later. There's a similar issue with AIX /usr/bin/sed up to at least AIX 5.3 that causes a significant number of "sed: Command line is too long." errors during configure. The fix is to install GNU sed. 3) nlist errors with 64-bit kernels Accessing certain MIB objects on AIX 5.x machines running a 64-bit kernel will trigger nlist/klookup errors. Starting from net-snmp 5.4, you can avoid those by using ./configure --without-kmem-usage ... 4) IPv6 Starting with net-snmp 5.4 you can enable the UDPIPv6 and TCPIPv6 transports on AIX 5.x: ./configure --enable-ipv6 There's no support for the IPv6 MIBs, though. 5) Compiler for Perl In general, Perl modules need to be compiled with the same compiler and compiler options as Perl itself. configure detects some mismatches (gcc vs. vendor compiler), but treats different incarnations of the same compiler type as similar. If your version of Perl (e.g. the one supplied by IBM for AIX 5.x) has been compiled with cc_r on AIX, please make sure you also use CC=cc_r when building net-snmp. Building with xlc in this case is known to fail (see bug #1600099). 2. Patches ---------- You may want to have a look for existing AIX patches in our patches tracker (http://www.net-snmp.org/patches/). If you can offer patches yourself to improve the AIX support, please submit them there. 3. Feedback ----------- Please also see README and PORTING. If you have questions, additional insights or (even better) patches regarding net-snmp on AIX, please refer to the net-snmp mailing lists (see http://www.net-snmp.org/lists).