Force to not use system ld / compiling on AIX

[Cedric Roux]

Andrew Guertin wrote:
> searching for powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-ld ... $HOME/local/bin/ld
> searching for ld ... $HOME/local/bin/ld

maybe not the problem, but did you try with absolute paths?
I had a problem some time in the path with passing --prefix=~/this/that
to configure and getting wrong result in the end because ~ was not
extended.
I had to do --prefix=/home/me/this/that