AIX 4.3.1, 7.0.3 build annoyances: C++ comments, make all, macro problem

Travis Pouarz (twp1(at)duke(dot)edu) reports a bug with a severity of 3
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Short Description
AIX 4.3.1, 7.0.3 build annoyances: C++ comments, make all, macro problem

Long Description
select version(): PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.1.0, compiled by xlc

Building Postgres 7.0.3 on AIX 4.3.1 using xlc (__IBMC__ = 436).
GNU Make version 3.77
Ran ./configure with '--with-tcl' (as well as other stuff)

I ran into the following three problems during build. I found workarounds to all three problems.

---- [1]
I needed to 'make all' explicitly. 'make' alone resulted in this behavior:

> make
Making postgres.imp
./backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh postgres /.../pkg/postgresql-7.0.3/bin > postgres.imp
nm: postgres: 0654-200 Cannot open the specified file.
nm: No such file or directory
xlc -Wl,-bE:./backend/postgres.imp -o postgres ../utils/version.o -L/.../lib -ltcl8.0 -L/.../readline-4.1/lib -lPW -lcrypt -lld -lnsl -ldl -lm -lreadline -ltermcap -lcurses
xlc: 1501-228 input file ../utils/version.o not found
make: *** [postgres.imp] Error 252

---- [2]
interfaces/odbc/pgtypes.h

has a single C++ comment. I would guess this is an error. Rather than changing the source I added '-qcpluscmt' to my compiler flags so the c compiler would accept C++ comments.

Actually, I see in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devhistory2.html that this is intentional "We switched to C++ so we could use those nifty // single line comments." :-)

---- [3]
interfaces/odbc/dlg_specific.h

I had to make the following change in dlg_specific.h:

#if 0
#define xstr(s) str(s)
#define str(s) #s
#define ODBCINST_INI xstr(ODBCINST) "/odbcinst.ini"
#endif
#define ODBCINST_INI "/odbcinst.ini"

To fix errors of this type:

xlc -I../../include -I../../backend -I/.../include -I/.../pkg/readline-4.1/include -qmaxmem=16384 -qhalt=w -qsrcmsg -qlanglvl=extended -qlonglong -qcpluscmt -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c psqlodbc.c -o psqlodbc.o
106 | getGlobalDefaults("PostgreSQL", "" "/odbcinst.ini", 0);
.....................................a.........................
a - 1506-010 (W) Macro str invoked with a null argument for parameter s.
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