Compile error on Solaris (Bad value 'wbadlkginit' for flag '-erroff')

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2016-02-19 09:40, Volker Simonis wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie
> <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-02-18 11:17, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, --disable-warnings-as-errors doesn't help in this case.
>>> If we want to still make it possible to build with 12u3 we have to
>>> filter out the corresponding -erroff options depending on the compiler
>>> version.
>> Due to reasons like this, we would like to support a minimal span of
>> versions for the solstudio compiler. So if you are alright with upgrading to
>> 12u4, we'd prefer to drop support for 12u3 completely. Filtering out error
>> options like this is quite a pain, otherwise.
>>
>> I believe there are few community users that care much about Solaris and
>> solstudio. Had you not told me you were building on Solaris, I would have
>> guessed only Oracle did so. This gives us, I believe, a better chance at
>> enforcing stricter restrictions on the set of supported versions, compared
>> to the situation for e.g. gcc and linux.
>>
> For our product builds we will most probably have to stay with older
> version for a couple of reasons (building on older OS release,
> dependency on other products/libraries, licensing/support issues,
> etc). But as long as the problem is just a few unknown compiler
> options I'm fine if you say you don't want to support them any more
> (we can easily remove them in our proprietary build).
>
> This assessment would of course change if it would be necessary to
> make bigger source code changes (i.e. template code) in order to
> support older compilers. But fortunately we're not there until now :)
>
> By the way, do you know if the upcoming "HotSpot C++ Unit-Test
> Framework" (JEP 281) will impose further restrictions on the supported
> C++ compilers?

Not that I know of, no. But perhaps no-one have ever tried compiling 
GTest on xlc, so you might have some porting work to do if you want to 
be able to use the unit test framework.

/Magnus


>
> Regards,
> Volker
>