[hobbit] Installing on AIX 5.2

[Larry Barber]

I had the same problem. You need to edit the osdefs.h file so that socklen_t
is an unsigned long, which is how it is defined in sockets.h.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 3/16/06, Whilding, Craig <Craig_Whilding at mentor.com> wrote:
>
>  Im trying to install the latest snapshot of the Hobbit client on AIX. I
> installed gnu make from the ucla aixpdslib site along with gcc 4.0.2. The
> configure worked fine and created the makefile to install the client with
> config on the server side. I changed the Makefile.AIX file to use gcc as
> it couldn't find cc and encountered the following errors. Im not very
> familiar with AIX and haven't been able to find one of our people who is yet
> so was hoping someone here would have some experience.
>
>
>
> # /usr/local/bin/make
>
> CC="/usr/local/bin/gcc" CFLAGS="-O -D_REENTRANT -DAIX -I. -I`pwd`/include
> -DCLIENTONLY=1" OSDEF="-DAIX" RPATHOPT="" PCREINCDIR="" SSLFLAGS=""
> SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" NETLIBS="" BBTOPDIR="/usr/local/hobbit" BBLOGDIR=""
> BBHOSTNAME="" BBHOSTIP="137.202.205.54" BBHOSTOS="" LOCALCLIENT="no"
> /usr/local/bin/make -C lib client
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/hobbit/snapshot/lib'
>
> /usr/local/bin/gcc -O -D_REENTRANT -DAIX -I.
> -I/usr/local/hobbit/snapshot/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include    -c
> -o sendmsg.o sendmsg.c
>
> In file included from /usr/local/hobbit/snapshot/include/libbbgen.h:24,
>
>                  from sendmsg.c:35:
>
> /usr/local/hobbit/snapshot/include/../lib/osdefs.h:21: error: conflicting
> types for 'socklen_t'
>
> /usr/include/sys/socket.h:80: error: previous declaration of 'socklen_t'
> was here
>
> sendmsg.c: In function 'sendtobbd':
>
> sendmsg.c:328: warning: passing argument 5 of 'getsockopt' from
> incompatible pointer type
>
> make[1]: *** [sendmsg.o] Error 1
>
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/hobbit/snapshot/lib'
>
> make: *** [lib-client] Error 2
>
> #
>
>
>
>
>
> Hope someone can help.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Craig Whilding
>
>
>
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