AIX and OpenJDK

[Volker Simonis]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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.

What I can promise is that we will be 'teaming up' real soon now
regarding this topic where 'real soon' means FOSDEM :)

>
> -Alan