Integrated: 8327701: Remove the xlc toolchain

Wed Mar 13 08:45:20 UTC 2024

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 15:29:58 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at 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.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 107cb536
Author:    Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/107cb536e75509ad63b245d20772eb2c3f73d595
Stats:     327 lines in 19 files changed: 24 ins; 266 del; 37 mod

8327701: Remove the xlc toolchain

Reviewed-by: jwaters, erikj

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18172