[aplusdev] AIX port

[Blake Yeager/Austin/Sector7]

Hi John:

Thanks for the quick reply. I was assuming gcc since the source
is available under the GNU license. I appreciate your pointers and
comments re problems with initialization of static data members. Are
you using AIX 4.4 or 5?

-Blake

-----Original Message-----
From: John.Mizel at morganstanley.com [mailto:John.Mizel at morganstanley.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:49 AM
To: Blake Yeager/Austin/Sector7
Cc: aplusdev at d13.com
Subject: Re: [aplusdev] AIX port


Hi Blake,

Which compiler will you be using? Internally we used to build for AIX
using XLc (3.25 and 4.1) . If you look in a/s.c you will see the define
HPC_PWR2 (also see a/pwr2hpc.h), which covers optimizations specifically
for the power architecture. It shouldn't be too difficult to get this
running.

Most recently we have been building A+ on AIX using gcc.  We have it
compiled, but have problems on startup with initialization of static data
members.  We suspect it is a problem with the link and are working with
IBM to get it resolved.

Thanks,
John

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Blake Yeager/Austin/Sector7 wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I've been asked to look at porting A+ to AIX. One of your Web pages
includes
> the following statement: "John Mizel developed a manageable build process
> and worked out porting issues beyond the early SunOS and AIX versions."
The
> reference manual also mentions AIX, yet there is no binary distribution.
>
> Can anyone comment on the technical issues of doing this port?
>
> Thanks,
> Blake
>
>