support for AIX and HP-UX

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 02/17/2011 06:32 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> On 02/17/11 02:50 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:12 PM, derleader mail<derleader at abv.bg>  wrote:
>>>   Hi,
>>>    I'm interested is it possible to use GnuTLS with IBM AIX and
>>> HP-UX? I need
>>> to develop a application which uses GnuTLS for secure communication
>>> on these
>>> platforms.
>>
>> You shouldn't have any problem on these platforms since they are
>> supposed to be
>> POSIX compliant. If you have any issue report it as bug.
>>
>> regards,
>> Nikos
> 
> I had problems when trying to build GnuTLS on both AIX and HP-UX, as
> part of the Sage maths program. Though this was with a rather old
> version of GnuTLS (2.2.1)
> 
> Here's the issue I had on AIX 5.3
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9975
> Here's the issue I had on HP-UX 11.11B
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7511
> (note I did report this HP-UX. I don't recall getting any feedback, but
> I may have done).

As I can understand from the logs, the gnutls-serv and gnutls-cli
programs do not build. Does this affect you on using the library?

regards,
Nikos