Re: symbol errors building AIX::Perfstat

[Illuminatus]

Sorry, I don't have access to an AIX machine, but I have one suggestion. You could try to build a small program that makes use of the C perfstat API. See if the symbol is defined in the resulting executable. If it is, take a look at the link command, and use nm on all of the object/lib files to see where/if it gets defined.

[Anonymous Monk]

When you build a AIX::Perfstat, Perfstat.xs file get run through xsubpp, then compiled. Then when you use AIX::Perfstat; it calls DynaLoader::bootstrap which calls
• DynaLoader::dl_load_file ('auto/AIX/Perfstat.so') and then
• $boot_symbol_ref = DynaLoader::dl_find_symbol('boot_AIX_Perfstat') and then
• my $xs = dl_install_xsub("${module}::bootstrap", $boot_symbol_ref, $file); and then
• &$xs;
Now assuming the user has a compiler, and actually compiled Perfstat.so, the way to get boot_ symbol not found error is though errors in Makefile.PL, or a broken/outdated version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker/ExtUtils::ParseXS (aka xsubpp)... AIX-Perfstat-0.04.1/Makefile.PL look all right to me, so I would suspect the dependencies (ExtUtils::)