Well, today's your lucky day.. I went through the process of building the latest client (v4.3.28) for AIX 6.1 just a couple days ago. Unfortunately, it wasn't as simple as "extract; ./configure.client; make; make install" as the documentation would have you believe. I had to jump through some hoops. I'll tell you what I did.

If you run into any problems. Please include any output in your replies.

First, in order to compile, I needed to have a number of open source packages installed. You can get all of them from "perzl.org".

I already had a GNU C compiler on my machine, but if you don't, you'll need that: http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Gcc

I needed to install the following extra packages. For the PCRE packages, you need to be sure to install both the MAIN package AND the "devel" package. http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Make http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Pcre

After installing those packages, I had to make a slight modification to one of the Make files. In "build/Makefile.AIX", I commented out lines 14 and 15, and uncommented lines 10 and 11. The result of doing this is, the build process would use "GCC" instead of the IBM "cc" if it is installed. There MIGHT be a flag available to specify which to use and avoid modifying these files. I haven't looked. I just opted with that approach

After making those changes, you should be able to run the "./configure.client" script, but I had to run it this way:

MAKE=gmake ./configure.client --pcreinclude /usr/include

--pcrelib /usr/lib

To deconstruct that, it sets the MAKE variable so the script uses "gmake" instead of "make". Also, it's ttelling it where it is supposed to find the PCRE include files and share libraries. On my system it was "/usr/include" and "/usr/lib" respectively.

After that, the configure script passed and complete successfully. From there I was able to simply run "make; make install" and when that was finished, I cd'd to the install directory I specified, and ran "./runclient.sh start"

If you're going to install this on multiple AIX machines, you do not have to do the build process on each machine. I just tar up the directory where I installed on the one machine, and extract it out onto the other machines. In order for that to work, you have to have, at a minimum the PCRE package installed. Xymon won't run without it.

Dependency hell is no fun. I installed Make and PCRE with the "--nodeps" flag and managed to get away with it. Your milage may vary.

Just in case, here is a list of packages I have installed. Not ALL of those will be needed for this install; this is just what I have my machines currently. If you don't have them, most if not all of these, should be available from "perzl.org".

Build machine: cdrecord-1.9-7 mkisofs-1.13-4 gdb-6.0-1 tcl-8.3.3-1 tk-8.3.3-1 expect-5.32-1 libgcc-4.0.0-1 libjpeg-8b-1 gcc-4.2.0-3 libgcc-4.2.0-3 libstdc++-4.2.0-3 gcc-c++-4.2.0-3 AIX-rpm-6.1.7.0-8 zlib-1.2.4-1 libstdc++-devel-4.2.0-3 bash-4.1-4 libpng-1.2.43-1 sysbench-0.4.12-1 AfterStep-1.8.10-1 grep-2.22-1 gettext-0.10.40-8 pcre-8.39-1 make-4.1-1 pcre-devel-8.41-1

Client machines: cdrecord-1.9-7 mkisofs-1.13-4 osinstall-1.2-1 pcre-8.39-1 AIX-rpm-6.1.7.0-5

Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer Hormel Foods Corporation | One Hormel Place | Austin, MN 55912 Phone: (507) 434-6817 edschminke at hormel.com | www.hormelfoods.com