Accessing to aix61-ppc64 for investigate missing gas or llvm version detection

[shigeki]

This issue was found during working WIP patch upgrading OpenSSL-1.1.1 as referenced in nodejs/node#18770. .
In aix64-ppc64, the detection of asm compiler version has an issue for https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-aix/18812/nodes=aix61-ppc64/consoleFull as shows.

22:53:36 WARNING: Could not recognize `gas`: 
..
22:53:36                  'gas_version': '0',
22:53:36                  'llvm_version': 0,

It seems gas or llvm version detection has some issues.
I'd like to have an access to login the server in order to debug the issue?

[richardlau]

This come up during the 1.1.0 update. It looked like AIX was running the native assembler and not gas: nodejs/node#19944 (comment)

[shigeki]

@richardlau Wow, I forgot the the issue in a half year ago. AIX also has own assembler. Thanks for reminding me of it.

I need to know if it does not have an option of --noexecstack as https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-commit-aix/18797/nodes=aix61-ppc64/console show the error.
If so, I have to add an exception rule of cflag not to add the option in aix.

04:34:07 Assembler:
04:34:07 line 1: 1252-168 --noexecstack is not a recognized flag.
04:34:07 line 1: 1252-170 Usage: as [-a{32|64}] -l[ListFile] -s[ListFile] -n Name
04:34:07 			-o ObjectFile [-w|-W] -x[XCrossFile] -u
04:34:07 			-m ModeName [-i] [-p{off|on}] [-E{off|on}] [-v] [InputFile]
04:34:07 gmake[2]: *** [/home/iojs/build/workspace/node-test-commit-aix/nodes/aix61-ppc64/out/Release/obj.target/openssl/deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/bio_ssl.o] Error 1
04:34:07 gmake[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

[shigeki]

I've also missed to know that AIX is based on PPC not Intel.
The support of AVX2 in shigeki/node@7f103fd is no longer needed. I would like to check the bare openssl-1.1.1 build binaries on aix if they are the same ones built in Node.

[refack]

@nodejs/build @nodejs/platform-aix
I would like another +1 before proceeding.

[Trott]

+1 from me.

[refack]

Keys in as [email protected]

[gdams]

+1

[mhdawson]

+1

[shigeki]

@refack Thanks. I can login the host and confirmed the assembler version token. I'm going to fix gyp scripts tomorrow.

# gcc -Wa,-v -c -o /dev/null -x assembler /dev/null
as V6.1

[shigeki]

The issue was resolved by shigeki/node@dea84b0.

@refack Please remove my access to 140.211.9.101. I removed /home/shigeki. Thanks.

[refack]

Done.
Thanks for the ping.