RFR: Add support for AIX in build process [v2]

[Suchismith Roy]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 09:50:33 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > > > > Question: Are you planning on using the MakeFile build? We are currently only using this for Oracle internal CI
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> > > > Yes. There was no support for AIX , I had to add the path for libclang.a.
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> > > 
> > > Just to be clear, I'm asking if _you_ are using the MakeFile build. You've updated both the Gradle and MakeFile builds, are you actually using both of them?
> > > If you don't need the MakeFile build, I suggest we just keep AIX support unimplemented there. Like I said, it's really only there to support Oracle CI at the moment (and Oracle doesn't build/test on AIX), the Gradle build is for public use.
> > 
> > 
> > Are you referring to the changes only in make/Build.gmk ?
> 
> I'm talking about all the make file changes, so make/Build.gmk, make/Common.gmk, and make/NativeCompilation.gmk.

Ok. Let me revert some changes and keep checking if that works. was not sure which build file causes the effects.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jextract/pull/297#issuecomment-3611194703