Installing Perl 5.10 on AIX 5.3 ML 6

My AIX version:

$ oslevel -r
5300-06

Nothing special about the Perl 5.10 sources that I know of.

$ csum -h MD5 perl-5.10.0.tar.gz
d2c39b002ebfd2c3c5dba589365c5a71 perl-5.10.0.tar.gz

Here are my xlC lib versions.

$ lslpp -l xlC\*
Fileset                      Level  State      Description
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
xlC.adt.include            8.0.0.4  COMMITTED  C Set ++ Application
                                     Development Toolkit
xlC.aix50.rte              8.0.0.8  COMMITTED  C Set ++ Runtime for AIX 5.0
xlC.cpp                    6.0.0.0  COMMITTED  C for AIX Preprocessor
xlC.msg.en_US.cpp          6.0.0.0  COMMITTED  C for AIX Preprocessor
                                     Messages--U.S. English
xlC.msg.en_US.rte          8.0.0.8  COMMITTED  C Set ++ Runtime
                                     Messages--U.S. English
xlC.rte                    8.0.0.8  COMMITTED  C Set ++ Runtime

I used VAC.

$ lslpp -l vac\*
Fileset                      Level  State      Description
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
vac.Bnd                    8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Media Defined Bundles
vac.C                      8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler
vac.aix50.lib              8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler Libraries
                                     for AIX 5.0
vac.html.common.search     8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler
                                     Documentation Search Common
                                     Files
vac.html.en_US.C           8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler
                                     Documentation (HTML)--U.S.
                                     English
vac.include                8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler Include
                                     Files
vac.lib                    8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler Libraries
vac.man.en_US              8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler Man
                                     Pages--U.S. English
vac.msg.en_US.C            8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler Messages -
                                     en_US
vac.ndi                    8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Non-Default
                                     Installation Script
vacpp.Bnd                  8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Media Defined
                                     Bundles
vacpp.cmp.aix50.lib        8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Libraries for AIX
                                     5.0
vacpp.cmp.aix50.tools      8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Tools for AIX 5.0
vacpp.cmp.core             8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Compiler
vacpp.cmp.include          8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Compiler Include
                                     Files
vacpp.cmp.lib              8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Libraries
vacpp.cmp.rte              8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Compiler
                                     Application Runtime
vacpp.cmp.tools            8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Tools
vacpp.html.common          8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Documentation
                                     (HTML)--Common Files
vacpp.html.en_US           8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Documentation
                                     (HTML)--U.S. English
vacpp.man.en_US            8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Compiler Man
                                     Pages--U.S. English
vacpp.memdbg.aix50.lib     8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ User Heap/Memory
                                     Debug AIX 5.0 Libraries
vacpp.memdbg.aix50.rte     8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ User Heap/Memory
                                     Debug AIX 5.0 Runtime
vacpp.memdbg.lib           8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ User Heap and
                                     Memory Debug Static Libraries
vacpp.memdbg.rte           8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ User Heap and
                                     Memory Debug Runtime
vacpp.msg.en_US.cmp.core   8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Compiler
                                     Messages--U.S. English
vacpp.msg.en_US.cmp.tools  8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Tools
                                     Messages--U.S. English
vacpp.ndi                  8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Non-Default
                                     Installation Script
vacpp.tnb                  8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Evaluation
                                     Licence Files

Path: /etc/objrepos
vac.C                      8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C Compiler
vacpp.cmp.core             8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Compiler
vacpp.tnb                  8.0.0.0  COMMITTED  IBM XL C/C++ Evaluation
                                     Licence Files

I had to put /usr/vac/bin in my PATH.

My configure command was:

sh Configure -Dprefix=/home/my/perl -Dusethreads

I installed Perl in my own special out of the way place. I certainly did not replace the system Perl. That would be asking for trouble.

And that is all I did special, and it all just worked. The basic directions from INSTALL:

make
make test
make install

All just worked. Amazing on AIX, I know.

My perl is working fine so far.

$ /home/my/perl/bin/perl --version

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for aix-thread-multi