Re: [Boost-build] Visual Age toolset

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-02 15:13:51

On Saturday 02 December 2006 23:00, Prashant Thakre wrote:
> K. Noel Belcourt <kbelco <at> sandia.gov> writes:
> > 
> > Hi Volodya,
> > 
> > On Dec 2, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > 
> > > Anybody can tell what 'vacpp' toolset is really is:
> > >
> > > 	- Does it target AIX or Linux
> > 
> > AIX, we run AIX 5.2.
> > 
> > > 	- Is this indeed Visual Age? Or it's actually XL C/C++?
> > 
> > The compilers are xlc, xlC, etc... but it's marketed as the Visual  
> > Age compiler set.
> > 
> > > 	- What version of compiler is it know to work with?
> > 
> > I currently use it with xlc/xlC 7.1 and 8.0.
> > 
> 
>  According to VisualAge C++ site 
>   http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/vacpp/ 
>   XL C/C++ is the follow-on successor to our VisualAge C++ compiler line, and 
> is available in versions to support AIX, Linux, and Mac OS X.
> 
>  XL C/C++(xlCentry) website: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/xlcpp/

On the other hand, we don't know if it works with 'vacpp' module or not. I'll mention this in the docs.

- Volodya