Looks good to me. 

/Magnus

> 18 feb. 2019 kl. 15:37 skrev Doerr, Martin <martin.do...@sap.com>:
> 
> Hi Matthias,
>  
> excellent. Looks good to me. This should make AIX ready for JEP 347.
>  
> Thanks
> Martin
>  
>  
> From: Baesken, Matthias 
> Sent: Montag, 18. Februar 2019 13:53
> To: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com>; 
> 'build-dev@openjdk.java.net' <build-dev@openjdk.java.net>
> Cc: Doerr, Martin <martin.do...@sap.com>
> Subject: RE: RFR : 8218965: aix: support xlclang++ in the compiler detection
>  
> Hello Martin and Magnus,
>  
> I  included Martin’s  harfbuzz fix  and adjusted  the  xlc version check   ( 
> renamed  variable to XLC_USES_CLANG and also check the TOOLCHAIN_PATH ) .
>  
> > 
> >If we're talking about a short migration story, where soon XLC 16 will be 
> >required, and we can just replace
> >TOOLCHAIN_CC_BINARY_xlc="xlc_r"
> >with
> >TOOLCHAIN_CC_BINARY_xlc="xlclang"
> > then I can accept it anyway, so we don't need to complicate things.
> >
>  
> Yes , that’s the idea -  to do the replacement above   sooner or later ;  
> depends of course also on the  introduction of the C++11/14 features in the 
> code base .
>  
>  
> New webrev :
>  
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8218965.1/
>  
>  
> Best Regards, Matthias
>  
>  
>  
> From: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com> 
> Sent: Montag, 18. Februar 2019 11:18
> To: Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baes...@sap.com>; 
> 'build-dev@openjdk.java.net' <build-dev@openjdk.java.net>
> Cc: Doerr, Martin <martin.do...@sap.com>
> Subject: Re: RFR : 8218965: aix: support xlclang++ in the compiler detection
>  
>  
> 
> On 2019-02-15 14:30, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
>  
> Are they both pointing to the same binary, and the mode of operation
> (legacy xlc vs xlclang) is determined by the name of the executable?
>  
>  
> Hello, in the installation I use   I have separate  binaries .
>  
>  
>  
> Is xlclang++ always available for version 16+ of xlc?
>  
>  
> I think so,  as least I am not  aware of an installation mode with separate  
> binaries .
> However I am not an XLC  installation guru 😊 .
>  
>  
> If so, maybe we should just make sure we call the compiler with the
> correct name if version 16+ is detected?
>  
>  
> I thought  that we currently  first set  the  toolchain  name and then  set a 
> fix  name for the binary  and check the version .
> But I might be wrong.  Maybe  we need  to adjust this .
> Or just at some future  point in time  declare  xlc16   as minimum   
> requirement  (this makes things  easier , we can then use  the new binary 
> names   ).
> 
> Yeah, we can adjust the process if needed. And to solve this *properly*, we 
> should. I still think this looks like the wrong way to do it. But...
> 
> If we're talking about a short migration story, where soon XLC 16 will be 
> required, and we can just replace
> 
> TOOLCHAIN_CC_BINARY_xlc="xlc_r"
> with
> 
> TOOLCHAIN_CC_BINARY_xlc="xlclang"
> then I can accept it anyway, so we don't need to complicate things.
> 
> I also don't like how xlclang is just run from the path, but OTOH it's only 
> you guys who are going to run that in practice, and it's just going to be 
> temporary, so, whatever. 
> 
> The name AIX_USE_CLANG is not really correct, though. This is not about AIX. 
> It should be XLC_USE_CLANG (or maybe better XLC_USES_CLANG, even perhaps 
> XLC_IS_CLANG?!). And, as I said, it should use true/false, not 0/1.
> 
> If you fix this, and we agree that this is a temporary measure, I'm OK with 
> the patch.
> 
> /Magnus
> 
> 
> 
>  

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