ppc-aix-port/jdk7u now builds with xlC12 on AIX 7.1

[Steve Poole]

Thanks Volker - thats good to know.  

On 19 Apr 2013, at 09:33, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> with the new March 2013 PTF for XL C/C++ V12.1
> (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24034636) it is now
> possible to build the complete ppc-aix-port/jdk7u JDK7. We've switched
> our nightly build on AIX 7.1
> (http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/ppc-aix-port/index.html) to use
> xlC 12 a few days ago and haven't found any issues until now.
> 
> Should you encounter any issues, please let us know.
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
> 
> PS: you can print out the compiler which was used to compile the
> OpenJDK VM with the '-Xinternalversion' option:
> 
> java -Xinternalversion
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (24.0-b34) for -ppc64 JRE
> (1.7.0-internal-jvmtests_2013_04_17_21_28-b00), built on Apr 17 2013
> 21:53:38 by "jvmtests" with xlC 1210
>