cc build-dev. Hi Tyler, makes sense to me. Wrt the documentation, probably we should change the minimum requirement of jdk12 too then.
Cheers, Thomas On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 4:05 PM Tyler Steele <tyler.ste...@ibm.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > In regards to the new Harfbuzz version bump (and the work done to prepare > for it). And of special importance now that > the Adoptium build of jdk11u-dev is > failing [ > https://ci.adoptopenjdk.net/job/AIX-jdk11-dev-build/17/execution/node/51/log/], > I wanted to suggest a course of > action to the AIX-folks here to get suggestions before I make any changes. > > Early this week, I spent some time looking into this issue. My assessment > is that AIX builds for jdk versions 11 and > greater will need the at least xlc version 16.1 to support the Harfbuzz > change. This is because full support for C++11 > with xlc did not arrive on AIX until that version (little-endian support > was complete in 13.1). > > For reference: > "IBM XL C++ for AIX > - Core language support status: C++11 partial in 13.1.3 and 16.1.0 (xlC > frontend), complete in 16.1.0 (xlclang > frontend)" [source: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support ] > > My expected course of action is as follows: > - Bump the minimum requirements in our Supported Builds document > [https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms] > - Open an issue with the Adoptium group to change their build for jdk11 > and above to use the version 16 compiler. > > As I am still relatively new to AIX and OpenJDK development, so I value > any suggestions for improvements, omissions you > may have noticed, or generally other comments the team here may have. > > Tyler >
