Re: Build errors on IRIX 5.3

[Tom G. Christensen]

On 10/31/2011 10:46 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> > Building the usual full snapshot with tests on IRIX 5.3 resulted in some
> > build errors and no tests being run.
> > ...
> > I've dumped the full build log and a copy of config.log here:
> > http://jupiterrise.com/tmp/gnulib-gb3e1b8d-irix53-gcc346-build.log
> > http://jupiterrise.com/tmp/gnulib-gb3e1b8d-irix53-gcc346-config.log or
> > http://jupiterrise.com/tmp/gnulib-gb3e1b8d-irix53-gcc346-config.log.gz
>
> Thanks for the reports.
>
> Currently each of the other issues is some bit of work to fix, and
> IRIX 5.3 is low priority for me (it was released ca. in 1993..1994, and
> is superseded by IRIX 6 since 1998). Therefore I'm not doing more than
> to document the issues.
Fair enough.

> If you have time, feel free to propose patches for the issues (one by one).
> Or use "gnulib-tool --avoid=getpwnam_r --avoid=poll ..." to avoid the known
> non-working modules when building a testdir.
I'll see about atleast getting a testsuite run done using some of the 
workarounds I found.

-tgc