[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Choice of C compiler on AIX

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:13:46 -0400
> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 12:11:31 +0100
>> > Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >> AIX is the only platform on which we use a different C compiler
>> >> binary to build against pthreads - xlc_r, rather than cc.
>> >>
>> >> Is there any reason that we couldn't just use xlc_r to build both
>> >> LWP and pthread targets?
>> >
>> > I wouldn't be the one to know about this, but... I thought the only
>> > difference between xlc_r and xlc
>>
>> sure, but this is xlc versus vc (VAC cc)
>
> Er, yeah. Somehow I read xlc, not cc. Isn't that still the case there,
> though? On the AIX box I tried, the cc in my path is still a hard link
> to xlc_r (and xlc, etc etc) with just different settings in
> /etc/vac.cfg.* .

do you have /usr/vac/bin/cc? it should be from a different package,
and a different compiler.

maybe they quietly merged them and i didnt notice.