Re: SGI's/Irix?

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "D3" == Doug Donalson <address@hidden> writes:

D3> I have a chance to get computing time on some Irix (sp?) machines.
D3> As I remember Swarm is rather picky about SGI's.  Actually, a
D3> better description might be that SGI's are picky about versions of
D3> gcc?  The machines have Irix 6.2-6.4.  I saw on the Swarm web page
D3> that there have been successes in the past.  Does anyone have
D3> recent expericent experience on Swarm installation for this?

Building correct shared libraries is a problem on older Irix configurations.
Current Irix (6.5) with current development tools (7.30, e.g. "ld -V"),
should work, although I haven't confirmed that Sun JDK works with the Java
layer.  Development tool upgrades can be downloaded for free from SGI.

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