Network Interface

Having a customer running AIX 6.1, one of the things I regularly have to deal with is the failure of most open source packages to identify the OS out of the box. Mostly because most sane people don’t bothering compiling open-source on AIX I imagine, but it’s much easier now that it used to be. In any case, just edit the configure file, and replace any instances if ‘aix5*’ with ‘aix6*’, and then check config.guess for an AIX check – usually if you search for the string ‘AIX’ you’ll see a check immediately after for the version number – wher you see ‘[45]‘ just replace it with ‘[456]‘. You’ll run into the same problem in the aclocal.m4 file if that’s the method being used.