From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA09116; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:51:16 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id KAA09497 for linux-list; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:50:50 -0700 Received: from yon.engr.sgi.com (yon.engr.sgi.com [150.166.61.32]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA09482 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:50:44 -0700 Received: (from ariel@localhost) by yon.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id KAA09670; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:50:28 -0700 From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-Id: <199706131750.KAA09670@yon.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: gcc for Irix. To: wje@fir.engr.sgi.com (William J. Earl) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <199706131654.JAA28555@fir.engr.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Jun 13, 97 09:54:57 am Reply-To: ariel@sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME5a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk : :Miguel de Icaza writes: :... : > I am running into a little problem. The binary gcc that is : > available on the free software collection is for Irix 5.3 and the : > include files that are packaged with it are not quite ok for Irix 6.2 :... : : In what way do the 5.3 include files cause problems? : [Note: I'm taking care of Miguel in private email] The headers that come with gcc are: 1) Only a very small subset of the full set of headers which were preprocessed by gcc 'fix_header' utility. 2) Correspond to the OS version on which gcc was built which may be incompatible in subtle ways with the runtime libraries on a later OS version. Since Miguel's Indy is (apparently) a 6.2 IRIX, possibly without all the necessary header patches, and the gcc he is trying was built on 5.3, I can see why he has header problems. Anyway, don't worry. This is being taken care of. -- Peace, Ariel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-ID: <199706131750.KAA09670@yon.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: gcc for Irix. Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:50:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199706131654.JAA28555@fir.engr.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Jun 13, 97 09:54:57 am Reply-To: ariel@sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: "William J. Earl" Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970613175028.excP-z0aO5yKiPKFYYgZjClzGNYmHyhDVEQTXgP8GlA@z> : :Miguel de Icaza writes: :... : > I am running into a little problem. The binary gcc that is : > available on the free software collection is for Irix 5.3 and the : > include files that are packaged with it are not quite ok for Irix 6.2 :... : : In what way do the 5.3 include files cause problems? : [Note: I'm taking care of Miguel in private email] The headers that come with gcc are: 1) Only a very small subset of the full set of headers which were preprocessed by gcc 'fix_header' utility. 2) Correspond to the OS version on which gcc was built which may be incompatible in subtle ways with the runtime libraries on a later OS version. Since Miguel's Indy is (apparently) a 6.2 IRIX, possibly without all the necessary header patches, and the gcc he is trying was built on 5.3, I can see why he has header problems. Anyway, don't worry. This is being taken care of. -- Peace, Ariel