Compiling Zabbix 1.8.4 Fails on AIX

[dkhans2]

I am trying to install and configure a Zabbix server on AIX but can't get it to compile.

There were many WARNING messages on header files being present but can't be compiled.
Eventually, it halted on a syntax error.



checking for execinfo.h... no
checking libperfstat.h usability... no
checking libperfstat.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: libperfstat.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: libperfstat.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: libperfstat.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: libperfstat.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: libperfstat.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: libperfstat.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the AC_PACKAGE_NAME lists. ##
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------------ ##...
...
...
checking for file /proc/1/status... yes
checking for file /proc/0/psinfo... yes
checking for file /proc/loadavg... no
checking for file /proc/net/dev... no
checking for long long format... no
checking for -rdynamic linking option... no
./configure[9266]: syntax error at line 10681 : `(' unexpected

[richlv]

see http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20849