sox_ng wiki - Distro-AIX

Distro AIX

AIX does not package SoX but has some peculiarities.

Build dependeencies

On AIX 7.1, most of the build dependencies fail:

  configure.ac:9: warning: macro 'AM_DISABLE_STATIC' not found in library
  configure.ac:36: warning: macro 'AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
  autom4te: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/bin/m4

even though I have the latest m4 installed in ~/bin and ~/bin is the first in $PATH.

libao

libao fails with a compilation error in src/ao_aix.c.

The attached patch fixes this in libao.

file

file (for libmagic)'s configure fails saying it can't find pkg-config.

With pkg-config installed, the build fails saying

  ld: ERROR: Undefined symbol: .getopt_long

which is odd because file correctly detects the lack of getopt, has its own built-in getopt_long and src/getopt_long.lo is built.

opusfile

Compilation fails saying src/http.c: In function 'op_http_conn_start_tls': src/http.c:1944:5: warning: ISO C forbids nested functions [-Wpedantic] 1944 | int ip_len; | ^~~ In file included from /usr/include/netinet/tcp.h:115, from src/http.c:345: src/http.c:1944:24: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or 'attribute' before '.' token 1944 | int ip_len; src/http.c:1944:24: error: expected expression before '.' token src/http.c:1949:5: error: 'ip_ff' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'ip_fv'? 1949 | ip_len=0;

because /usr/include/netinet/ip-h contains

  #define  ip_len  ip_ff.ip_flen

The solution is to edit src/http.c to change all ip_len to iplen.

Now fixed in mainline opusfile 2024-09-15 as commit 3ecc22a.

libvorbis-1.3.7

./configure --prefix=$HOME && make fails saying

  CCLD     libvorbisfile.la
  ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .rintf
  ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .floor

but autoreconf -i && ./configure && make works.

Extraction

• If the target directory sox_ng-14.4.3 does not already exist, tar fails.

Compilation

• On cfarm111, gcc is in /opt/freeware/bin so make sure that's in your PATH.

Installation

• On AIX 7.1 (cfarm111) ./configure --prefix=$HOME; make install installs everything under $HOME/configure/ On AIX 7.3 it's OK.
• On AIX 7.3 (cfarm119) you must ./configure --disable-stack-protector otherwise it dies unable to find libssp