build: AIX port

[gopherbot]

by swan.bus.go:

As the title

[minux]

Comment 1:

Issue #7209 has been merged into this issue.

[minux]

Comment 2:

Issue #7210 has been merged into this issue.

[minux]

Comment 3:

Probably gccgo supports AIX, but I'm not sure.

Labels changed: added release-none, repo-main.

Status changed to Accepted.

[ianlancetaylor]

Comment 4:

Considering that the gc compiler supports neither PowerPC nor COFF, an AIX port would be
a substantial amount of work.  I'm not aware of anybody on the core Go team interested
in working on this.  Unless somebody with a lot of time and skill steps forward, I think
support is quite unlikely.
It would be much less work to add AIX support to the gccgo compiler.  I doubt it works
today but I think somebody with some knowledge of the XCOFF object file format could do
the port without too much work.

Status changed to LongTerm.

[treksler]

looks like #19200 has some work towards this

[trex58]

GCC Go v8.1 (go v1.10) has been ported on AIX v7 by my team. Available from BullFreeware web-site.
http://www.bullfreeware.com/search.php?package=gcc-go
gcc-go, libgo, and gcc 8.1 RPMs.

golang v1.11 is now being ported on AIX 7.2 . The port should be finalized in August/September. It should be available first on BullFreeware web-site.

[trex58]

See: #25893 .

[ALTree]

We now have an AIX/ppc64 port and we are already using #25893 to link all the CLs, so we can close here.