On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM Thomas Koenig via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > Am 30.06.25 um 20:47 schrieb Jonathan Wakely via Gcc: > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2025, 17:13 Thomas Koenig via Gcc, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > > >> Am 30.06.25 um 17:17 schrieb Richard Biener via Gcc: > >>> There used to be access to an AIX system on the compile farm, but I do > >> not know about the status of that. > >> > >> https://portal.cfarm.net/machines/list/ lists > >> cfarm111 and cfarm119 as AIX machines, a POWER7 > >> and POWER8 system, respectively. > >> > > > > Bootstrap works ok on cfarm119, with the right options. I haven't tried on > > cfarm111 for a few years. > > In the spirit of "Why not?" I gave this a spin. After replacing > make with gmake via a symlink in ~/bin (and setting the PATH > accordingly), I tried to run a bootstrap which failed somewhere > along the lines with > > checking for powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.5.0-gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler works... no > configure: error: in `/home/tkoenig/trunk-bin/mpfr': > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > See `config.log' for more details > > Not submitting a PR on this one, the environment on that > machine may be strange. > > Anyone wanting to get this to work will have their work cut out. > > If anybody wants to take a peek, /home/tkoenig is world-readable > on that machine.
Some years ago (well, 5+ honestly) I was using I think 119 to help figure out some endian-specific bugs in a patch I was working on. It is slightly worrying if AIX/power support has bitrotted due to it being kicked off the primary/secondary platforms list, are there any other reasonably powerful big-endian targets developers can rely on and which are available on the compile farm? -- Janne Blomqvist
