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Description
Add configure check for XL compiler version support. As indicated by various bug reports, we don't really support older XL compiler versions (<=12.1) so we should error out with an informative message.
- v3.0.0rc1: XLC-12.1 build errors w/ -q32 and atomics #3816
- v3.0.0rc1: XLC-13.1 odd failure running ring_c #3817 (somewhat related)
- v3.0.0rc1: XLC build errors with ompi_datatype_module.c #3811 (somewhat related)
It might also be useful to check for ppc64
vs ppc64le
and emit a message.