aix: use fullpath for (g)make so PATH does not need to be modified #3441
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at system level.
See issue: adoptium/infrastructure#1544
The playbooks have prefixed system level PATH with /opt/freeware/bin. As that contains coreutils certain AIX commands that coreutils has repeatedly denied to add an AIX argument (noteablu
-p
) this setting breaks many AIX management commands - even standard boot (ie, called from rcboot) scripts.In the issue noted above it is stated that this is needed so that
gmake
is found.This PR points the config at the actual binary
/opt/freeware/bin/make_64
rather than depend on PATH and symbolic links to call the application.