postgesql-9.0.4 compile on AIX 6.1 using gcc 4.4.6

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font-family:Arial">Hello,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I am just trying to compile postgresql-9.0.4 on AIX 6100-06-03-1048 using gcc
4.4.6.</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Since many years I did this successfully on other versions of AIX using xlc. However my
version9 of xlc is no longer running on AIX 6.1 and no one is willing to sponsor a new version of xlc.
</span></font><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">So I started trying to
compilepostgresql with gcc 4.4.6. </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The installation of gcc was a nightmare. There were unresolved dependencies that needed to be
ignoredwith parameter nodeps when installing by rpm!?</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Unfortunately that was not all. </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial">There was also:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial">"[Bug target/46072] AIX linker chokes on debug info for uninitialized static
variables"</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial">This is an IBM bug in AIX’s assembler (as) which causes corrupt object code that is crashing
whentrying to execute it.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial">As far as I know IBM still not delived a fix for this. It seems that they are not interested
inthis as IBM’s xlc is not using the assembler to create object code.  </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Does any one know whether there is an alternate way to compile postgresql on AIX 6.1 using
gcc???</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I appreciate even the smallest hint!</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Regards </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
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