[Zope-dev] Building / installing Zope on AIX 5.3

[Andreas Jung]

--On 19. März 2008 09:31:42 -0300 Marcello Bax <marcello.bax at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I compiled Python 2.4.4 on AIX 5.3, with cc_r compiler, installed
> Zope-2.9.8and Plone-2.5.1.
>
> Everything seems work well, excepted when I call Plone on the browser or
> click on the "view tab" inside one Plone site at the ZMI.
> When I do this, I get a "Segmentation fault" on the server.
>
> Can anyone help me with this issue?
> Are there many AIX and Zope box running Plone?

no

>
> I found this text in  at Zope-2.9/doc/PLATFORMS/AIX.txt :
>
> "from Wolfgang Roesner (reporting segfaults and a fix)
>
>   The default stack size for a pthread on AIX (at least in my
>   configuration) is 96kB. On Solaris it's 1M. As soon as I explicitly
>   set the initial stack size to 1M the problem went away and it
>   appears as if Zope is up and running.
>
>   Unfortunately I really had to change "thread_pthread.h" in Python
>   which obviously is not a nice thing to do as I now have a need for
>   my own private version of Python. But at least I have a running
>   version of Zope on AIX."
>

I tested Plone on AIX lately with some pre-build binary from IBM...pretty 
much unusable. After compiling Python on my own: no further problems. 
Private Python installations are in general considered being best-practice.

-aj
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