Re: Math::Pari on AIX 7.1

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:57:45PM +0000, Michael Wulff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to build the perl module Math::Pari in a Perl 5.14.2 environment on AIX
> 7.1 TL01 64 Bit using vac compiler v11.1.0.8.
> 
> When running `make' I get the following error from the paricfg.c file:
> 
>         xlc_r -q64 -c  -I ../../pari-2.5.1/src -I ../../pari-2.5.1/src/headers -I ../../pari-2.5.1/src/graph -I .  -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=-1 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -qlanglvl=extended -q64 -DUSE_64_BIT_ALL -q64 -O    -DVERSION=\"\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"\"  -Derr=pari_err -DDYNAMIC_PLOTTING -o paricfg.o ../../pari-2.5.1/src/language/paricfg.c
> "../../pari-2.5.1/src/language/paricfg.c", line 18.31: 1506-221 (S) Initializer must be a valid constant expression.
> "../../pari-2.5.1/src/language/paricfg.c", line 19.33: 1506-221 (S) Initializer must be a valid constant expression.
> "../../pari-2.5.1/src/language/paricfg.c", line 21.34: 1506-221 (S) Initializer must be a valid constant expression.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
> 
> Stop.
> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
> 
> Stop.
> 
> Does the IBM compiler have a problem with the const declarations?
> 
>    +17  const char *paricfg_datadir = GPDATADIR;
>    +18  const char *paricfg_version = PARIVERSION;
>    +19  const char *paricfg_buildinfo = PARIINFO;
>    +20  const long  paricfg_version_code = PARI_VERSION_CODE;
>    +21  const char *paricfg_vcsversion = PARI_VCSVERSION;

No. The problem is that it uses an incorrect paricfg.h file that is missing the
definition of PARIVERSION, etc.

However, Math::PARI is not developed by us and is using a different configure system,
so we cannot really help you.

Cheers,
Bill.