postgesql-9.0.4 compile on AIX 6.1 using gcc 4.4.6

Hello,

I am just trying to compile postgresql-9.0.4 on AIX 6100-06-03-1048
using gcc 4.4.6.

Since many years I did this successfully on other versions of AIX using
xlc. However my version 9 of xlc is no longer running on AIX 6.1 and no
one is willing to sponsor a new version of xlc. So I started trying to
compile postgresql with gcc 4.4.6.

The installation of gcc was a nightmare. There were unresolved
dependencies that needed to be ignored with parameter nodeps when
installing by rpm!?

Unfortunately that was not all.

There was also:

"[Bug target/46072] AIX linker chokes on debug info for uninitialized
static variables"

This is an IBM bug in AIX's assembler (as) which causes corrupt object
code that is crashing when trying to execute it.

As far as I know IBM still not delived a fix for this. It seems that
they are not interested in this as IBM's xlc is not using the assembler
to create object code.

Does any one know whether there is an alternate way to compile
postgresql on AIX 6.1 using gcc???

I appreciate even the smallest hint!

Regards

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