RFR: JDK-8312466: /bin/nm usage in AIX makes needs -X64 flag [v2]

Wed Jul 26 12:36:53 UTC 2023

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:10:51 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I don't think this is the right place to make this change. Shouldn't it be handled at configure time in ./autoconf/toolchain.m4 ? There is also a BUILD_NM variable that will not be fixed by the proposed change.

Currently  all needed flags for calling NM are set directly in the makefile, see

common/NativeCompilation.gmk

hotspot/lib/CompileJvm.gmk

hotspot/lib/JvmMapfile.gmk

so Andreas was just following the current practise. Regarding BUILD_NM , I cannot find usage of it in the makefiles, so probably nothing to fix at the moment.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15036#issuecomment-1651714852