$NetBSD: README.AIX,v 1.5 2022/04/05 12:57:21 gdt Exp $ In 2022-04, there was a report that pkgsrc-current fails to bootstrap on AIX 7.1 with gcc 8.3: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2022/04/04/msg035424.html Ancient Information =================== All of the below is from 2007 or earlier. Status ----- pkgsrc has been tested on AIX 4.3 and 5.1. It will probably work on newer releases also. You will need gcc. gcc 3.3 and 3.4 have been tested. full support for xlC needs to be written. Please note the use of GNU binutils on AIX is not supported. You must not have GNU ld(1) in your path. If you are using gcc -------------------- It makes life much simpler if you only use the same gcc consistently for building all packages. It is recommended that an external gcc be used only for bootstrapping gcc from pkgsrc, lang/gcc3 is recommended. Post bootstrap setup -------------------- Here is an example mk.conf: --- Cut here --- # Configure scripts don't always get this right MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM=powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0 CC=gcc CHECK_SHLIBS=no RENAME= USE_GCC3=yes PKGMAKECONF=${MAKECONF} --- Cut here --- You also need to setup a few environment variables: PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg/pkgdb MAKECONF=/usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf MAKESYSPATH=/usr/pkg/share/mk You'll also want to set PATH, MANPATH and LIBPATH