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------- Comment From wschmidt at us.ibm.com 2016-01-19 15:41 EDT-------
Thanks, Dmitri!  Sorry about that.  Now that I am testing the correct packages, everything appears to be looking good.  I've verified a variety of the patches are present, including split-stack support, POWER9 binutils, and various code generation examples.

We will continue to backport patches to branches/ibm/gcc-5-branch, so if
you are able to pick up any more of them before your toolchain freeze,
that would be great.  Otherwise what's present is dandy.

One thing I noticed that was a bit odd.  After installing gccgo-5, I
found that to use the gccgo compiler I had to invoke it as "gccgo-5",
rather than just "gccgo".  I assume this will cause problems with
scripts assuming that gccgo is the correct executable name.  Can this
please be fixed?

Thanks,
Bill

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Title:
  [Ubuntu 16.04] Enable P9 toolchain

Status in gcc-5 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This is a feature request to track the inclusion of POWER9 enabled in
  Ubuntu.

  This is required as a building block for POWER9 development in Ubuntu
  16.04. The final goal is to have Ubuntu 17.04 as the primary distro to
  (partially?) support POWER9 machines.

  Mirroring for Canonical awareness. A backport will be required.

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