Previewing the default installation process
Before installing IBM® Open XL C/C++ for AIX® 17.1.2, you
can preview the default installation process using either the System Management Interface Tool
(SMIT) or the installp command.
Using SMIT
You can use the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) to preview the default IBM Open XL C/C++ installation.
Follow the steps to install the compiler to the default location given in Using SMIT. When prompted with the SMIT dialog to
customize the installation in step 3, set the Preview only? field to yes.
With this setting enabled, SMIT displays progress messages at each stage of the installation but
does not actually install the compiler on your system.
Using installp
You can also preview the command line installation process and write the output to a log file,
using the installp command. Follow the steps to install the
compiler to the default location given in Using installp and specify the
-p flag to preview the process without installing the compiler.
The following example previews the installation of all the available compiler filesets in the /cdrom/usr/sys/inst.images source directory and writes an installation log file to /tmp/install.log.
Example:
installp -paXgd /cdrom/usr/sys/inst.images -e /tmp/install.log all