Originally posted by: strikr

Hi:

with gcc 8.1.0 we got Go lang on AIX 7.x which is very impressive

http://www.bullfreeware.com/go/go8.0.1/aix7.2/

However, the documentation mentions that a miniscule set of tests are still failing.

Here are the few questions i have:

1. is this engineering initiative open to FOSS community at large ?

2. would there be parity in Go and C support for AIX ?

thanks for your time.

warm regards

Saifi.

Originally posted by: sanket

Hi,

This forum tries to answer open source related question for AIX but at a large for AIX toolbox.

The gcc-go is also available from AIX toolbox as well. But let me try to answer your questions with best of my knowledge.

1. Yes most of the patches those were generated during porting of gcc-go on AIX have been contributed back to gcc and go.

2. Yes that is the final goal. We would like to open source community to also participate in same. 

Hope this will help.

Originally posted by: T.Rex

Hi Saifi,

Go RPMs posted at: http://www.bullfreeware.com/go/ are only preliminary and not-"official" RPMs.

You rather should get "official" versions from: http://www.bullfreeware.com/search.php?package=gcc  (gcc-go and libgo RPMs).

I will clean old GoRPMs on /go asap.

golang v1.11 RPMs for AIX 7.2 are coming on /go : http://www.bullfreeware.com/go/golang1.11/  For now it is v1.11 beta3 .

Once v1.11 is released by golang project, Golang v1.11 RPMs for AIX 7.2 will be published as 1.11-1beta, since there are still some (2) important issues, and cgo is not yet provided. These RPMs should be used for experimenting only. They should not be used for production.