[cfarm-users] cfarm110 and cfarm111 decommissioning on February 27

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I tested for the compilation problem by compiling on cfarm111.cfarm.net with
> /opt/IBM/xlc/16.1.0/bin/xlc. If you're using an older version of xlc, 
> that would explain why you see a compilation problem but I don't.

Indeed, I was using the /usr/bin/xlc (which identifies itself as being from
2012).

> I suppose if IBM doesn't care enough to make that compiler 
> easily available then free-software maintainers shouldn't care enough to 
> port to it.

Yes. And likewise for AIX: If IBM doesn't care enough to make an AIX box
available to the Free Software community with reasonable usage terms,
and if IBM doesn't care enough any more to employ the leading GCC developer
for AIX, then why should GNU package maintainers continue to worry about
portability to AIX?

Bruno