[Samba] Questions about Samba 3.x on AIX 4.3.3

[William.Saxon at sage.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Kosin [mailto:james_kosin at cox.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:12 PM
> To: William.Saxon at sage.com
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Questions about Samba 3.x on AIX 4.3.3
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <William.Saxon at sage.com>
> Newsgroups: linux.samba
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:10 PM
> Subject: [Samba] Questions about Samba 3.x on AIX 4.3.3
>
> > I'm hoping someone could answer at least one of the 
> following questions:
> >
> > 1. I don't understand the purpose of expfull or bigtoc. If I can
> > compile/link without -bexpfull and -bbigtoc, will the 
> resulting binaries 
> > be
> > safe to use?
> > 2. If it's not safe, what is the latest release of Samba 
> that can be built
> > without having a C99-compliant compiler?
> > 3. What is the latest 'known buildable' version of Samba 
> for AIX 4.3.3, 
> > and
> > what build tools are required for success?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Will
> 
> 
> Will,
> 
> I know this is silly; but, have you tried compiling 
> samba-3.0.6 from here ?
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/
> 
> From what I can find now, 3.0.12pre1 didn't compile on AIX 
> 4.3.3 so I'm 
> making a good guess any version less than this may work well.
> I found may people with problems with AIX 4.3.3 and compiling various 
> versions but didn't see any solutions.
>

James,

I did get that just in case that was the best I could do. I figure I could
also try to backport the fsusage.c changes from 3.0.6 since they were minor.

I have learned 2 things since I posted - one, if I disable winbind, ldap,
ads, cups and readline + comment out the bexpfull and bbigtoc flags, I can
build/install 3.0.32 without issue. I haven't tested it yet, but it may
work. I also learned that the gnu ld on AIX is just a bad idea, and that it
may be possible to tell gcc to use the IBM/AIX ld instead. I may try that
later.

Thanks for your reply.

-Will