AIX6 upported?

ROOT
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We are trying to install ROOT 5.26 on an IBM server running AIX 6.1
But when the AIX administrator tried to install ROOT, the process fails during the initial check about the required packets.
The installer stops because it doesn’t find libxft-devel while instead this packet seems to be installed on the AIX server.
This problem let the AIX administrator think that the installation script may not be fully compatible with the AIX server.
But what I guess is that AIX 6.1 could not be supported, because I found an old (2008) topic in which Rene Brun wrote: “We lost our last AIX machine about two years ago, so I am not surprised if our current version does not work anymore on AIX systems.
We keep the AIX configurations and options (as they were at the time we had a machine).”

Please can you tell me definite words about this? Have I to drop the idea to install ROOT on AIX 6.1?

many thanks!

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Hi,

We still do not have access to any AIX machine and thus can not support it directly. However if you are interested, we can help get it to work on your side and incorporate the resulting patch back into the trunk if needed.

[quote]The installer stops because it doesn’t find libxft-devel while instead this packet seems to be installed on the AIX server. [/quote]The configure must not be looking in the right directory then. As a work-around you can try the --with-xft-libdir=where_it_is option to configure.

Cheers,
Philippe.