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changeset 44556:90489afa82c7
Document the problems with building and dumping on Irix 6.5.9 and earlier.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 13 Apr 2002 10:50:32 +0000 |
| parents | 8f0060b3240b |
| children | 4b1e92d76a10 |
| files | etc/MACHINES |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/MACHINES Sat Apr 13 09:53:06 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/MACHINES Sat Apr 13 10:50:32 2002 +0000 @@ -748,6 +748,20 @@ 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