Release Notes for the Advance Toolchain 8.0-2

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Features in 8.0-2

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Support

Customer support for the Advance Toolchain (AT) is provided in one of three ways:

  1. If you are using AT as directed by an IBM product team (ex.: IBM XL Compiler or PowerVM Lx86) please report suspected AT problems to IBM Support using that product name and entitlement.
  2. IBM's Support Line for Linux Offering in the United States now provides support for AT as well. If you have a contract with a U.S. Support Line for Linux contract, place a call to IBM Support:
    • Dial 1-800-426-IBM-SERV
    • Option #2 (Other business products or solutions)
    • Option #2 (Software)
    • Option #7 (Other OS/Linux)
  3. All other users can use an electronic forum that is monitored Monday through Friday. For questions regarding the use of or to report a suspected defect in AT, click here.
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    • An initial response will be attempted within 2 business days.
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Installation

The gpg public key 6976a827-gpg.keywill be provided in the repository where these release notes were found. The public key can be used to verify the authenticity of both the Advance Toolchain install packages and the repository contents. After downloading the gpg public key, it can be imported as follows:

sudo apt-key add 6976a827-gpg.key

Using aptitude or apt

If the Advance Toolchain repository has not already been configured, that must be done first. As root, edit the following file, adding one of the lines as needed for the installed system:

/etc/apt/sources.list

To install using aptitude:

# If the repository has just been configured, refresh the aptitude cache
sudo aptitude update
# Install the Advance Toolchain packages
sudo aptitude install advance-toolchain-at8.0-runtime \
		      advance-toolchain-at8.0-devel \
		      advance-toolchain-at8.0-perf \
		      advance-toolchain-at8.0-mcore-libs

To install using apt:

#If the repository has just been configured, refresh the apt cache
sudo apt-get update
#Install the Advance Toolchain packages
sudo apt-get install advance-toolchain-at8.0-runtime \
		     advance-toolchain-at8.0-devel \
		     advance-toolchain-at8.0-perf \
		     advance-toolchain-at8.0-mcore-libs

Aptitude and apt support package upgrades for new revision releases (i.e. 7.1-0 to 7.1-1). For new major releases, install as if a new installation.

Manual installation for rpms

If you are installing the rpms manually you will need to install them in the following order (due to prerequisites):

advance-toolchain-at8.0-runtime-8.0-2
advance-toolchain-at8.0-devel-8.0-2
advance-toolchain-at8.0-perf-8.0-2
advance-toolchain-at8.0-mcore-libs-8.0-2
advance-toolchain-at8.0-runtime-at7.0-compat-8.0-2

If you are updating a previous installation, you need to update as a batch, so rpm can solve the dependencies, i.e.:

rpm -Uvh advance-toolchain-at8.0-runtime-8.0-2.ppc64.rpm \
         advance-toolchain-at8.0-devel-8.0-2.ppc64.rpm \
         advance-toolchain-at8.0-perf-8.0-2.ppc64.rpm \
         advance-toolchain-at8.0-mcore-8.0-2.ppc64.rpm \
         advance-toolchain-at8.0-runtime-at7.0-compat-8.0-2.ppc64.rpm

The rpm command should always be run as root. Failure to do so will result in an error similar to this:

error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000

Important notes

Installation for runtime compatibility on previous distribution versions

Users running applications on previous distributions of SLES or RHEL may install the compatibility rpm advance-toolchain-at8.0-runtime-compat-8.0-2 in order to get the Advance Toolchain runtime libraries.

Installation of the cross-compiler (Intel x86)

You can download advance-toolchain-at8.0-cross-8.0-2 and install in a x86 machine to build Power binaries on it. Binaries generated by the cross-compiler will run on a Power system with the same version of the Advance Toolchain installed.

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Documentation

The official documentation for the Advance Toolchain is available at the IBM Power Linux Community website.

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Legal notices

In order to comply with the GPL and LGPL licenses, the source code for the following packages is available:

Please look for the advance-toolchain-at8.0-src-8.0-2.tgz file in the repository.

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