AIX and OpenJDK

[Alan Bateman]

On 01/02/2012 16:40, Steve Poole wrote:
>
> I can see your point of view  but the amount of work to support AIX is 
> much lower than that for Mac - so I don't see the need.  You obviously 
> have some critieria in your head about port vs no port so I would be 
> interested to understand that in more detail.
If we have a port to AIX in OpenJDK then I would expect to be able to 
ssh into a machine running AIX, setup the tools/environment, clone the 
jdk8 forest and run "make". With the proposal then someone doing this 
will not be building everything from source, and I think that's a problem.

> To be honest Alan, I tried building Zero on windows and linux and it 
> was not a great story (instructions are fairly limited) so I didn't 
> try to build it on AIX.    Of course I don't have a problem with 
> someone else giving it go!
I don't have any experiences with Zero to have suggestions, except 
perhaps providing access to a machine so that folks in the community 
could jump in and give it a go. I also remember in the original thread 
that Volker Simonis chimed in to mention that they (SAP) have a port of 
HotSpot to AIX. I don't know anything about this but maybe there is an 
opportunity to team up to get a basic port of Zero going.

-Alan