Sorry, I missed your question. I can't speak for the aix-port repo, but I'm 
satisfied from the build point of view. 

/Magnus

10 sep 2013 kl. 14:22 skrev Volker Simonis <volker.simo...@gmail.com>:

> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Volker Simonis <volker.simo...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Magnus,
>> 
>> thanks again for the review. Please see my comments inline:
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie 
>> <magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Volker,
>>> 
>>> Some more comments inlined.
>>> 
>>>> OK, common/autoconf/build-aux/autoconf-config.guess was too old and didn't 
>>>> knew about AIX 7 so it returned the default AIX fallback which is 
>>>> 'rs6000-ibm-aix'. I have now fixed 'autoconf-config.guess' to know about 
>>>> AIX 7 (a one character change which is already in autoconf-2.69 so we 
>>>> won't have         problems if you should ever update 
>>>> autoconf-config.guess).
>>> 
>>> Hmm... While more elegant, the idea was that autoconf-config.guess should 
>>> be a strict copy of the config.guess file from the autoconf package. The 
>>> whole idea of wrapping it in a custom config.guess was to avoid "forking" 
>>> the autoconf config.guess, with small changes (like this) that would be 
>>> hard to track and might get lost if we update to a newer version from the 
>>> upstream autoconf file.
>>> 
>>> That being said, since we settled on autoconf 2.69, we really should update 
>>> the file to config.guess from autoconf-2.69. I've started a test run on our 
>>> internal test system with the config.guess from 2.69 to see if it breaks 
>>> any existing platforms. If not, I suggest we do a fast integration of the 
>>> new config.guess.
>>> 
>>> Can you hold on with your changes until a new config.guess comes in? Even 
>>> if you're just making a small change that will be reverted soon after, I 
>>> think it would set a unfortunate precedent.
>>  
>> That's OK for me. Actually my change still works without the changes in 
>> "config.guess" on AIX 5.3. And it will automatically start working once we 
>> get the new "config.guess".
>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Ahrgh, all these proud compilers with their own ways of expressing the 
>>>>> same functionality. :( I assume that you are using the COMP_MODE_OPTION 
>>>>> in the jdk projct? I couldn't find any references to it in the Hotspot 
>>>>> build changes, and otherwise there seems to be no reason to export it in 
>>>>> the spec.gmk file.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, exactly. It is used in 'jdk/makefiles/GensrcX11Wrappers.gmk' 
>>>> (MEMORY_MODEL_FLAG="$(COMP_MODE_OPTION)$*").
>>> Once again the X11 wrappers. We should really make an effort and get rid of 
>>> them. :-/
>> 
>> I don't mind:) 
>>>> I fully agree with the criticism on the name:) After we already have 
>>>> 'COMPILER_SUPPORTS_TARGET_BITS_FLAG' I've simply renamed it to 
>>>> 'COMPILER_TARGET_BITS_FLAG'. I think that's much more appropriate and if 
>>>> you don't like it we should ask the one who invented 
>>>> 'COMPILER_SUPPORTS_TARGET_BITS_FLAG' :) And I had to set 
>>>> 'COMPILER_TARGET_BITS_FLAG' a little earlier  such that is availabel in 
>>>> PLATFORM_SET_COMPILER_TARGET_BITS_FLAGS.
>>> Sounds good! Nice aligning with the existing macro.
>>> 
>>> However, you forgot to change the name in spec.gmk.in. (At least in the 
>>> webrev you published.)
>>  
>> Good catch! I didn't realize it because the build in the stage repositories 
>> currently doesn’t reach the X11 wrappers.
>> I've changed it and moved it near the definition of  
>> 'COMPILER_SUPPORTS_TARGET_BITS_FLAG'
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 2. After you pointed out that setting '-q64' as extra flags on the 
>>>> configure command line is not the way it is supposed to work I recalled 
>>>> that we also have this problem on older Linux/PPC64 boxes (e.g. SLES 10) 
>>>> where the default compiler produces 32-bit objects by default. To fix this 
>>>> problem as well, I've inserted a call to 
>>>> PLATFORM_SET_COMPILER_TARGET_BITS_FLAGS followed by a second call to 
>>>> AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([int *], [1111]) in the case where we would otherwise have 
>>>> bailed out because the "TESTED_TARGET_CPU_BITS" differs from the actual 
>>>> "OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_BITS". I think this change should not               
>>>> affect any existing platforms because it will only be triggered where we 
>>>> woould have bailed out with an error anyway.
>>>> 
>>>> Also, the workaround for autoconf bug 
>>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2010-07/msg00004.html           
>>>>     in AC_CHECK_SIZEOF isn't needed any more now that we require at least 
>>>> autoconf-2.69 because the problem was fixed in 2.67. And if I looked at it 
>>>> more carefully I must say that I don't understand the workaround at all. 
>>>> In my opinion, the test "x$SIZEOF_INT_P" != "x$ac_cv_sizeof_int_p" will 
>>>> always fail, because the AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro only writes a define for 
>>>> SIZEOF_INT_P into "confdefs.h" (as can be seen in generated-configure.h) 
>>>> but it never defines it in the shell. And defining SIZEOF_INT_P in the 
>>>> configure shell script wouldn't help if the define written by the 
>>>> AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro was wrong (as described in the bug). So Ithink the 
>>>> best is to remove the workaround and use               
>>>> "ac_cv_sizeof_int_p" in the places where we used AC_CHECK_SIZEOF before.
>>> 
>>> Good to get rid of the old workaround. I agree, it looks kind of weird. I 
>>> think I might have been behind some of the weirdness; I think I interpreted 
>>> the autoconf documentation as if it should assign a variable SIZEOF_INT_P 
>>> in the configure script, and that the $ac_* variables were internal 
>>> variables that should not be directly accessed. In the current 
>>> documentation, at least, the $ac_cv_sizeof* macro is officially mentioned 
>>> so it should be safe to use.
>>> 
>>> However, your second relies on some internal autoconf magic, by     
>>> unsetting variables and defines. We've tried to avoid that, but at times 
>>> there were no choice. Since we're about to fail anyway, and the code is 
>>> more in place for future, strange platforms, it's probably no harm.
>> 
>> Exactly.
>> 
>> Is it OK if I push it now to 
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/ppc-aix-port/stage or is there 
>> anything you want to test first?
> 
> Vladimir will push the changes because he also needs to re-generate the 
> closed config files (thanks Vladimir).
> 
> Here's the final webrev:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/8024265.v3
> 
> @Vladimir: I used autoconf 2.69 to create the webrev, so if you recreate the 
> config files the diff to 'common/autoconf/generated-configure.sh' should be 
> only the time-stamp field.
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
> 
>>  
>>> /Magnus
> 

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