AIX LTS builds 8 and 11 failing when built on AIX 7.2 machines.

[sxa]

adoptium/ci-jenkins-pipelines#622 is in to adjust the configurations to use AIX 7.2 for building AIX LTS releases, on the basis that AIX 7.1 is going out of support soon.

The build for JDK17 is running ok but as per one of the comments in there (repeasted below) it's currently failing for 8 and 11 and will need some remedial work:

• JDK8: jdk/src/share/classes/jdk/internal/platform/Metrics.java:57: error: cannot find symbol on SystemMetrics
• JDK11: Not quite sure where the underlying failure is

[sxa]

@backwaterred has confirmed to me that he has been able to successfully build JDK11 on one of his AIX 7.2 machines using the same XLC 16.0.10000.0011 compiler that's on ours.

[sxa]

@backwaterred confirmed that JDK8u doesn't build on AIX 7.2 for him either with some issues in SystemMetrics.java

[sxa]

Re-running JDK8 on AIX 7.2 with last GA tag at https://ci.adoptium.net/job/build-scripts/job/jobs/job/jdk8u/job/jdk8u-aix-ppc64-temurin/235/
PASSED on build-osuosl-aix72-ppc64-1:

10:23:43  =JAVA VERSION OUTPUT=
10:23:45  openjdk version "1.8.0_362-beta"
10:23:45  OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Temurin)(build 1.8.0_362-beta-202302240952-b09)
10:23:45  OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Temurin)(build 25.362-b09, mixed mode)
10:23:45  =/JAVA VERSION OUTPUT=

So just 11 that needs to be fixed

[backwaterred]

FYI, jdk8u should be building again after openjdk/jdk8u#33 fixed the SystemMetrics issue.