Building perl 5.8.8 on AIX 5.3 using gcc 4.1.1

[rgebbie]

I have seen some previous posts regarding problems building Perl on AIX with gcc. Unfortunately, none of the posts produced any answers to the problem. I am also having similar problems, and I hope there are answers for them.

I am able to run Configure, and do the 'make' successfully, but doing 'make test' produces numerous failures, like:

# Can't load '../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so' for module File::Glob: dlopen: ../l
ib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so: (ld 3 1 Perl_safesysfree ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.s
o(ld 3 1 Perl_croak ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_safesysrealloc ../
lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_safesysmalloc ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.
so(ld 3 1 PL_memory_wrap ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_sv_2pv_flags
../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_form ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld
3 1 Perl_get_sv ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_newXS ../lib/auto/File
/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_sv_setpv ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_sv_
newmortal ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_newSVpvf ../lib/auto/File/Gl
ob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_sv_2mortal ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_stac
k_grow ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_sv_setiv ../lib/auto/File/Glob/
Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_mg_set ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_sv_2iv ../l
ib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 Perl_newSVpvn ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld
3 1 Perl_sv_taint ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 PL_stack_sp ../lib/auto/F
ile/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 PL_markstack_ptr ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 PL
_stack_base ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 PL_sv_yes ../lib/auto/File/Glob
/Glob.so(ld 3 1 PL_op ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 PL_curpad ../lib/auto
/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 PL_sv_undef ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 PL_st
ack_max ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so(ld 3 1 PL_tainted ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Gl
ob.so(ld 3 1 PL_tainting ../lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so at ../lib/XSLoader.pm lin
e 70.
# at ../lib/File/Glob.pm line 96
# Compilation failed in require at - line 23.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at - line 23.
# STATUS: 65280
# Failed at run/fresh_perl.t line 55
FAILED at test 82

I get similar errors when doing 'make install'.

Please help me. I have spent many hours trying to solve this, and have trying getting answers in other discussion groups, without success.

Thank you