additional AIX hints from zoran.majcenic inet.hr

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diff --git a/doc/rrdbuild.pod b/doc/rrdbuild.pod
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--- a/doc/rrdbuild.pod
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@@ -67,13 +67,24 @@ board, just re-run the last line of the instructions above.
 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
 compile your own copies of the required libraries.
 
 But again this may have been too optimistic, and you actually have to
 compile your own copies of the required libraries.
 

+=head2 Building on AIX
+

 If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>
 If you are woking with AIX, you may find the the B<--disable-shared> option
 will cause things to break for you. In that case you may have to install the
 shared libraries into the rrdtool PREFIX and work with B<--disable-static>

-instead. (Better instructions for AIX welcome!)
+instead.
+
+Another hint to get rrdtool working on AIX is to use the IBM XL C Compiler:
+
+ export CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc
+ export PERLCC=$CC
+
+(Better instructions for AIX welcome!)

 
 =over
 
 
 =over
 

+=head2 Building Libraries
+

 =item Building zlib
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR
 =item Building zlib
 
  cd $BUILD_DIR