AIX Changes

[Steve Poole]

On 2 Jul 2012, at 09:08, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> sorry, I can't help you with that.  Freetype is only used in OpenJDK, therefore
> we did not port it.  We use code that is not available in the open, so we may
> not share it.
> 
Ok  that's fine.  Next question..

How do I build Hotspot on AIX?    I used the instructions in the PPC guide in the root of the repo - specifically 


HOTSPOT_TARGET=all_debugcore 
CC_INTERP=true 
OPENJDK=true 
CORE_BUILD=true 

but I'm getting a build failure of:

make[6]: *** No rule to make target `/home/spoole/hudson/workspace/sp.ppcaix.jdk7u.aix.ppc64/work/hotspot/make/aix/makefiles/tiered.make.o', needed by `/home/spoole/hudson/workspace/sp.ppcaix.jdk7u.aix.ppc64/work/hotspot/make/aix/makefiles/tiered.make'.  Stop.

Does that problem sound familiar?


> Sorry for that,
>  Goetz.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ppc-aix-port-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:ppc-aix-port-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Steve Poole
> Sent: Samstag, 30. Juni 2012 10:47
> To: ppc-aix-port-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: AIX Changes
> 
> Hi Goetz,
> 
> As we discussed via the phone yesterday I started to do a sanity build with this patch applied.    
> 
> One thing I've found already is that the freetypecheck fails to build as its makefile is not AIX aware and tries to use  -rpath. 
> Your patch correctly fixes the same sort of problem in Program.gmk   so I assume that either you missed  make/tools/freetypecheck/Makefile  or you have another sort of work-around?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 28 Jun 2012, at 11:00, Steve Poole wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi guys -   we've taken a look at Goetz's AIX changes and we would really like them to be  committed.   I think it would be best if someone for SAP did that :-)
>> 
>> Attempting to reconcile the different approaches between the IBM and the SAP code bases in a piecemeal manner just means it will take a long time before we have a working codebase - which is somewhat mad given you already have one.
>> 
>> If you're happy with doing a bulk commit ,  then, once the changes are in the codebase, we can work through any remaining IBM changes we think are needed and offer them up.   
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Steve
>