As of perl5.002b1f the MakeMaker shipped with perl moans a lot
building dynamic loaded extension on AIX. They have been reported to work.

There may be 'make install' problems too.

Getting latest MakeMaker from CPAN may help.

Tk800.018 was giving core dumps with some compilers:

James Walden <jamesw@ichips.intel.com>
Reports:

I fixed the problem by upgrading to from VAC 4.4.0.0 to 4.4.0.2.
This might be worth adding to the README for AIX.

> lslpp -L | grep -i vac
  vac.C                      4.4.0.2    A    C for AIX Compiler