Technical Stuff

I have been working on compiling a localized PERL installation on AIX 5.3. Long story short, we don't have root to these boxes, and the root owners won't guarantee support for PERL modules that we need. As an old RedHat guy, I like to use RPM to maintain custom packages. I have been working on compiling PERL and the associate modules. I hit a stumbling block with perl-Net-SSH2 version 0.28 . The commercial AIX compiler kept choking on the compile. AutoSplitting blib/lib/Net/SSH2.pm (blib/lib/auto/Net/SSH2) /opt/builder/local/bin/perl "-Iinc" -e 'use ExtUtils::Mksymlists; \ Mksymlists("NAME" => "Net::SSH2", "DL_FUNCS" => { }, "FUNCLIST" => [], "DL_VARS" => []);' /opt/builder/local/bin/perl "-Iinc" /opt/builder/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /opt/builder/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap SSH2.xs > SSH2.xsc && mv SSH2.xsc SSH2.c ...

So as an information thief most of my career, I've usually only used the web to find information and never really contributed anything. I have started this blog to capture some of the more interesting things that I discover during the course of working. There is nothing new or exotic here and I certainly am not trailblazing. But, sometimes I come across neat little fixes, workarounds, or strategies that google didn't readily return as part of search. Maybe someone else could benefit from what I put here. And if not, it will help me remember what I did a few months from now, when I have completely replaced the memory with some new video game.