Build environment: coreutils-8.29 AIX 6.1 xlC version: IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V12.1 (5765-J02, 5725-C72) Version: 12.01.0000.0002 AIX make (/bin/make) Environment variables: export CC=xlC export CFLAGS=-q64 export CXX=$CC export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS export LD=ld export AR="ar -X64" export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-bmaxdata:0x80000000" Bug: ./configure succeeds make fails: CC src/stat.o "src/stat.c", line 598.19: 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier intmax_bufsize. "src/stat.c", line 598.19: 1506-1324 (S) Array size must have integer type. Problematic code in src/stat.c: enum { intmax_bufsize = INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (intmax_t) }; static char str[intmax_bufsize ... Description: I see this enum technique used in slightly different ways in other parts of the source. I'm not sure of the rationale for using enum here, but apparently the AIX xlC compiler doesn't like it. Since it is the only use of this variable (intmax_bufsize) in this file, it is easy to replace the use of intmax_bufsize with its value INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND(intmax_t), which allows the compilation to finish correctly. I'm not aware of any other workaround for this issue. Maybe it's a compiler bug? But in any case, it would be nice if a source change didn't have to be made. As an additional comment, it took me quite a while to find working values for CFLAGS, AR, and LDFLAGS. I'm not sure how you might accomplish it, but it would be friendlier if, once it's determined that gcc is not available and xlC is available, a reasonable set of default options were supplied, so that every user of xlC doesn't have to rediscover some set defaults which allow the build to succeed. Finally, I'm attaching the test-suite.log indicating a couple of failures and a few errors.