diff etc/MACHINES @ 88123:375f2633d815

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--- a/etc/MACHINES	Thu Sep 04 04:00:49 2003 +0000
+++ b/etc/MACHINES	Mon Sep 08 11:56:09 2003 +0000
@@ -755,13 +755,25 @@
 
 Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix[456].*)
 
-  Emacs 21.3 is reported to work on IRIX 6.5.x.
-
   You can build a 64-bit executable (with larger maximum buffer size)
   on Irix 6.5 by specifying the 64-bit ABI using the `-64' compiler
   flag or otherwise (see cc(1)).  This may work on earlier Irix 6
   systems if you edit src/s/irix6-0.h following irix6-5.h.
 
+  Building Emacs 21.1 and 21.2 on versions of Irix before 6.5.10,
+  especially when Emacs is built with GCC, was reported to have subtle
+  problems such as being unable to print to stdout under the -batch
+  command-line option.  Building with the native compiler or upgrading
+  the OS to a newer version solves these problems.  There's evidence
+  that these problems are actually related to the runtime libraries
+  (before IRIX 6.5.10, the IRIX runtimes were based on the MIPSpro 7.2
+  compilers), so installing patches for the runtime from
+  http://www.sgi.com/support/patch_intro.html could solve the problem
+  even without upgrading the OS.  The dump process is the crucial
+  step that needs the upgraded runtime, so a workaround is to dump
+  Emacs on a machine with a newer OS, then copy the binary to the
+  older OS.
+
   If compiling with GCC on Irix 6 yields an error "conflicting types
   for `initstate'", install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this
   problem should go away.  It is possible that this problem results
@@ -769,6 +781,23 @@
   could also try reinstalling the same version of GCC, and telling us
   whether that fixes the problem.
 
+  The 19.26 pretest was reported to work on IRIX 4.0.5 and 5.2.
+  19.23 was reported to work on IRIX 5.2, but you may need to install
+  the "compiler_dev.hdr.internal" subsystem in order to compile unexelfsgi.c.
+  19.22 was known to work on all Silicon Graphics machines running
+  IRIX 4.0.5 or IRIX 5.1.
+
+  Compiling with -O using IRIX compilers prior to 3.10.1 may not work.
+  Don't use -O or use GCC instead.
+
+  Most IRIX 3.3 systems do not have an ANSI C compiler, but a few do.
+  Compile Emacs 18 with the -cckr switch on these machines.
+
+  There is a bug in IRIX 3.3 that can sometimes leave ptys owned by root
+  with a permission of 622.  This causes malfunctions in use of
+  subprocesses of Emacs.  Irix versions 4.0 and later with GNU Emacs
+  versions 18.59 and later fix this bug.
+
 Masscomp (m68k-masscomp-rtu)
 
   18.36 worked on a 5500DP running RTU v3.1a and compiler version 3.2
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