On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 13:29:42 +0100, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 03:52:41PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 03:08:08 +0200, Perl 5 commit summary
> > <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Remove Configure hints for the old AT&T 3b1.
> > > Andy Dougherty 5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 116 deletions
> > > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/7b0e9f133bcaadc6
> >
> > Does AIX-3 also fall in the chainsaw possibilities?
>
> Aside from 353 lines of self contained hints file:
>
> $ wc -l hints/aix_3.sh
> 353 hints/aix_3.sh
>
> is there anything else that killing AIX-3 simplifies?
No, same for AIX-4: when I split them off, I made sure they were safe
as they were. Just the fact that I am about absolutely sure that
perl5.18 will not build on AIX-3 (and probably also not without a lot
of manual interventions on AIX-4) made me ask the question.
> I'm curious
>
> 1) How long ago was its End Of Life?
The oldest smoke I could find for AIX from me was
Automated smoke report for 5.8.2 patch 21643 on aix - 4.3.3.0 (aix/1 cpu)
(i2) using gcc version 3.3.2
I do not have any software remains from our AIX-3.1.5, so I cannot check
"IBM Software support lifecycle" doesn't even mention AIX 4
AIX 5L for POWER 5.3.x (5765-G03) was available till 13-Aug-2004 and
has 30-Apr-2012 shown as EOL. (Our customer has NO plans to update,
upgrade or move to a better OS, so we're stuck with that for a while)
> 2) Did it ever have an ANSI C compiler?
Yes, xlc/vac was available (and expensive)
Yes, I had gcc built on it
> (Google suggests that the answer to the second question is "yes", in that
> there are references to GCC version triples such as powerpc-ibm-aix3.2.5 and
> rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5)
--
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using perl5.00307 .. 5.19 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/
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> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 03:52:41PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 03:08:08 +0200, Perl 5 commit summary
> > <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Remove Configure hints for the old AT&T 3b1.
> > > Andy Dougherty 5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 116 deletions
> > > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/7b0e9f133bcaadc6
> >
> > Does AIX-3 also fall in the chainsaw possibilities?
>
> Aside from 353 lines of self contained hints file:
>
> $ wc -l hints/aix_3.sh
> 353 hints/aix_3.sh
>
> is there anything else that killing AIX-3 simplifies?
No, same for AIX-4: when I split them off, I made sure they were safe
as they were. Just the fact that I am about absolutely sure that
perl5.18 will not build on AIX-3 (and probably also not without a lot
of manual interventions on AIX-4) made me ask the question.
> I'm curious
>
> 1) How long ago was its End Of Life?
The oldest smoke I could find for AIX from me was
Automated smoke report for 5.8.2 patch 21643 on aix - 4.3.3.0 (aix/1 cpu)
(i2) using gcc version 3.3.2
I do not have any software remains from our AIX-3.1.5, so I cannot check
"IBM Software support lifecycle" doesn't even mention AIX 4
AIX 5L for POWER 5.3.x (5765-G03) was available till 13-Aug-2004 and
has 30-Apr-2012 shown as EOL. (Our customer has NO plans to update,
upgrade or move to a better OS, so we're stuck with that for a while)
> 2) Did it ever have an ANSI C compiler?
Yes, xlc/vac was available (and expensive)
Yes, I had gcc built on it
> (Google suggests that the answer to the second question is "yes", in that
> there are references to GCC version triples such as powerpc-ibm-aix3.2.5 and
> rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5)
--
H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/
using perl5.00307 .. 5.19 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/
http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/