Thanks for the report, Peter.



On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:57:29PM -0800, Peter Karman wrote:

> IRIX 6.5
> ===========
> 
> This was the trickiest, since IRIX uses some non-standard env variables.
> 
> make = GNU make 3.79.1
> cc = GNU GCC 3.2.1
> 
> The same as above except:
> 
> setenv LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH /path/to/gcc/lib:/path/to/swish-e/2.4.1/lib
> 
> instead of
> 
> setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /path/to/gcc/lib:/path/to/swish-e/2.4.1/lib
> 
> and use 'irix' instead of 'sunos' in paths.

Does IRIX have LD_RUN_PATH?  Be nice to store the path in the executable
instead of having to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime.

Another option is using -R and -L together.  Not sure if that would work
on IRIX.



> Comments
> ============
> 
> One thing I discovered is the "-L/path/to/zlib -lz" was required in 
> addition to the "-L/path/to/swishe/lib -lswish-e" for the perl module 
> configuration. Otherwise, I got errors about the Perl DynamicLoader 
> failing to recognize the compress2 symbol. This was not noted in the 
> perl/README, but the README did get me on the right track with the 'no 
> root access' section.

Good point.  As you point out, it's hard to test this stuff when running
Linux as it just seems to work.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org