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I can confirm this problem. I am using scons to build my 
project on AIX. I could not run parallel builds (-j4) on AIX. 
Randomly, but very often xlC invocation would stuck and I 
have 4 xlCcode hanging and taking all CPUs.


After adding HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES for 
AIX and rebuilding Python parallel builds on AIX are fine. 
Trying first fix with changing 0 to 1 in sem_init also resolved 
this problem, but I started to get some other unexplained 
error from scons, so had to deactivate semaphores all 
together.

Albert, thanks for this report, it helped a lot.