Re: RFR: JDK-8329257: AIX: Switch HOTSPOT_TOOLCHAIN_TYPE from xlc to gcc [v2]

2024-04-02 Thread Joachim Kern
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 14:48:49 GMT, Martin Doerr wrote: >> My question is, do we need this block, because now already configure warns >> about an outdated compiler, or is a warning to weak and we want to force >> this error here? > > I think that building with xlc 16 is no longer possible because

Re: RFR: JDK-8329257: AIX: Switch HOTSPOT_TOOLCHAIN_TYPE from xlc to gcc [v2]

2024-04-02 Thread Martin Doerr
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 11:22:54 GMT, Joachim Kern wrote: >> I'd prefer having less AIX specific parts in this file. Can this be moved >> somewhere else? Or maybe combine it with the AIX code above? > > My question is, do we need this block, because now already configure warns > about an outdated

Re: RFR: JDK-8329257: AIX: Switch HOTSPOT_TOOLCHAIN_TYPE from xlc to gcc [v2]

2024-04-02 Thread Joachim Kern
> 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 was removed by >