Please apply this patch to current, to fix a problem with runcheck,

that installs into a different path than is configured.

With this applied both postmaster and the shared libs are location
independent
for AIX 4.2 and up.

Thanks
Andreas

doc/FAQ_AIX

-From: ZEUGSWETTER Andreas IZ5 <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at>
-Mon Apr 17 14:01:23 EDT 2000
+From: Zeugswetter Andreas <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
+Wed Nov  8 11:16:35 MEZ 2000
 
 AIX 4.3.2 with native IBM compiler xlc 3.6.4 passes all regression tests.
 Other versions of OS and compiler should also work. If you don't have 
 a powerpc there might be differences in the geometry regression test.
 
-Use the following configure flags in addition to your own:
-./configure --without-CXX
-and if you have readline there:
+Use the following configure flags in addition to your own
+if you have readline or libz there:
 --with-includes=/usr/local/include --with-libraries=/usr/local/lib
 
 libpq++ does not work because xlC does not have the string and bool classes.
@@ -16,6 +15,5 @@ compiling the few files, that fail, with g++ does work.
 Compiling PostgreSQL with gcc (2.95.2) on AIX does work if you use the
 configure option: --with-template=aix_gcc 
 
-With the current compiler flags the redefines of int8 - int64, that prior
-versions had a problem with, are not a problem any more.
-
+There will probably be warnings about int8 - int64 redefines and 0.0/0.0
+devision warnings, which you can safely ignore.

src/Makefile.shlib

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 1998, Regents of the University of California
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Makefile.shlib,v 1.33 2000/11/08 20:18:49 petere Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Makefile.shlib,v 1.34 2000/11/09 04:17:53 momjian Exp $
 #
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -278,8 +278,8 @@ else # PORTNAME == aix
 
 # AIX case
 $(shlib): lib$(NAME).a
-	$(MKLDEXPORT) lib$(NAME).a $(libdir) > lib$(NAME)$(EXPSUFF)
-	$(LD) -H512 -bM:SRE -bI:$(top_builddir)/src/backend/$(POSTGRES_IMP) -bE:lib$(NAME)$(EXPSUFF) -o $@ $< $(LDFLAGS) $(SHLIB_LINK)
+	$(MKLDEXPORT) lib$(NAME).a > lib$(NAME)$(EXPSUFF)
+	$(CC) -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-bM:SRE -Wl,-bI:$(top_builddir)/src/backend/$(POSTGRES_IMP) -Wl,-bE:lib$(NAME)$(EXPSUFF) -o $@ $< $(LDFLAGS) $(SHLIB_LINK)
 
 endif # PORTNAME == aix
 

src/makefiles/Makefile.aix

@@ -26,12 +26,20 @@ MKLDEXPORT=$(top_srcdir)/src/backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh
 
 $(POSTGRES_IMP):
 	@echo Making $@
+ifeq ($(host_os), aix3.2.5)
 	$(MKLDEXPORT) postgres $(bindir) > $@
+else
+  ifeq ($(host_os), aix4.1)
+	$(MKLDEXPORT) postgres $(bindir) > $@
+  else
+	$(MKLDEXPORT) postgres . > $@
+  endif
+endif
 	$(CC) -Wl,-bE:$(top_builddir)/src/backend/$@ -o postgres $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS)
 
 %$(EXPSUFF): %.o
-	$(MKLDEXPORT) $*.o `pwd` > $*$(EXPSUFF)
+	$(MKLDEXPORT) $*.o > $*$(EXPSUFF)
 
 %$(DLSUFFIX): %.o %$(EXPSUFF)
-	@echo Making shared library $@ from $*.o, $*$(EXPSUFF), and installed postgres.imp
-	$(CC) -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-bM:SRE -Wl,-bI:$(libdir)/$(POSTGRES_IMP) -Wl,-bE:$*$(EXPSUFF) -o $@ $*.o $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_SL) -lc
+	@echo Making shared library $@ from $*.o, $*$(EXPSUFF) and postgres.imp
+	$(CC) -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-bM:SRE -Wl,-bI:$(top_builddir)/src/backend/$(POSTGRES_IMP) -Wl,-bE:$*$(EXPSUFF) -o $@ $*.o $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_SL)