Small correction: early versions of ECLiPSe have been built on AIX, but that was AIX4.2 on PowerPC processor. You find some remnants in the configure file. Wit Jakuczun wrote: > Hi Kish, > thank you for detailed answer. I am not sure whether AIX will be > choosen but I feel prepared for this battle ;). > If I manage to port ECLiPSe to AIX I will let you know about details. > > Best regards, > Wit Jakuczun > > 2010/4/8, Kish Shen <kisshen_at_cisco.com>: >> Wit Jakuczun wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> my client would like to migrate their system from Sparc to AIX. One >>> of the components of the system is ECLiPSe (5.10). >>> Does anybody has any experience with running ECLiPSe on AIX platform? >>> What should I expect? >>> >>> Best regards >> Hi Wit, >> >> I don't think ECLiPSe has ever been built on an AIX platform, so you >> will need to try to compile ECLiPSe from source for this platform, and >> at the very least, you would need to modify the configure.ac file to add >> the platform, and you will need the GNU tool chain (gcc, autoconf, make >> etc.) working on the platform (non-GNU versions of these tools would >> probably require some additional hacking). You therefore probably need >> to be quite familiar with these tools if you want to port ECLiPSe to the >> platform, as you are likely to run into problems during the build that >> requires further modification of the source. >> >> ECLiPSe should be reasonably portable across Un*x platforms, and I think >> AIX is a Un*x variant. There are some hints in the SetupGuide (in >> documents/internal/SetupGuide.doc -- yes, it is in MS Word format) on >> porting ECLiPSe, but you should only attempt porting if you are >> reasonably familiar with compiling and using the GNU tool chain on >> different Un*x platforms. >> >> Cheers, >> >> KishReceived on Sat Apr 10 2010 - 02:43:03 CEST
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