Grr! <rant>

[Edward Glowacki]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Paul Melson wrote:
>      It's a poor mechanic... [j/k]
> 
>      That's somewhat unfair since AIX 4.3.x ships with Perl, cc/libc,
>      and man on the CDs.  Blame the VAR/consultant that set it up that
>      way.  I've had pretty decent luck with Apache/OpenSSL and SSH on
>      AIX, although I admit I'm running SSH-2.4.0 from ftp.ssh.fi as
>      opposed to OpenSSH, and it is a little bit more AIX-friendly (no
>      need for zlib, plus a Makefile with AIX in mind).
> 
> PaulM

Yeah, when I went to download PERL binaries, CPAN said 4.3.x had
them already installed.  And yes you can get cc/libc but as I
understand it, that actually costs money? plus its not part of the
default install at any rate, same with PERL and man pages.  I can't
point the finger too far, I sat over the shoulder of the person
installing it, though I've never done an AIX install before, so I
wouldn't have known what was included and where to find the additional
stuff I need.  OpenSSH wasn't bad at all, ./configure, make, make
install, but the lack of a C compiler handy on the box was the
problem, which would have also fubar'd SSH 2.4.

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Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Computer Laboratory, Technical Support Services		
Michigan State University