Compiler question

[Steve Poole]

On 18 Feb 2013, at 08:29, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:

> We only use and support xlC (altough you may remember that we need a
> very specific version as long as the problems in the new compilers
> haven’t been resolved). So I think for the beginning we can go with
> xlC.
> 
> I have no idea how stable the gcc/gdb toolchain is on AIX and we've
> never investigated this although the chance of being able to use gdb
> instead of dbx seems tempting:) Do you have any experience here?

nope - no idea on stability.  I asked the question to see if you had any experience :-)
For now then I'll update the toolchain config for autocont to require xlC.

thanks

> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Steve Poole <spoole at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The new build process in JDK8 assumes that the default choice for C compilers are gcc  and g++.
>> My current attempt to build on AIX overides this assumption and tries to force the use of xlc and xlC.
>> 
>> A question -  what C compilers should we support on AIX?   Just the IBM versions or should we allow the open source versions too?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
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