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From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: RS6000 questions/comments
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Date: 25 Jun 91 21:13:09 GMT
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In article <141@ssi.UUCP> cjr@ssi.UUCP (Cris J. Rhea) writes:
>I am one of the system admins at our company. One of our compiler folks
>started using one of our rs6000's and had the following comments---

I suspect most of these things have to do with conforming to one
standard or another and AIX 3.1's parentage.

> * Make on the rs6k has no TARGET_ARCH or HOST_ARCH. The rs6k has no arch
>	command that I can find.

What does arch do? Can't find it in the my Sys V or BSD references...

> * Make on the rs6k doesn't seem to automatically sccs out files it can't 
>	find, so you may need to sccs get SCCS.
>
> * The make on rs6k also doesn't automatically issue the .INIT rule.

You might want to port over GNU make using the patches floating around
on the net, though I don't remember .INIT rule support in it either.

The AIX make seems to have the same SCCS support documented in the
Nutshell book... Take a look at /etc/make.cfg.

>* The rs6k like the u370 (that's the 3090) has no vfork().

It's in the BSD compatibility library (libbsd.a) according to the
documentation.

Anyway the BSD porting document in /usr/lpp/bos should help him out...


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