On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 15:44:48 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> As of [JDK-8325880](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8325880), building >> the JDK requires version 17 of IBM Open XL C/C++ (xlc). This is in effect >> clang by another name, and it uses the clang toolchain in the JDK build. >> Thus the old xlc toolchain is no longer supported, and should be removed. > > Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > Revert SEARCH_PATH changes make/autoconf/toolchain.m4 line 444: > 442: COMPILER_NAME=$2 > 443: SEARCH_LIST="$3" > 444: SEARCH_PATH="$PATH" I am note 100% sure about this; I think the intention of some of the old code amounted to this, but it was not entirely clear. But, then again, I think this is a good idea, and I think we should do this on *all* platforms -- search the toolchain path before the normal path. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18172#discussion_r1517884839
