X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.irix;h=911a2514b3a89fd5a039b5a2d8b770d99b7a1473;hb=ce0e211a90da72f1344099dc2e538e0b466a3641;hp=8ef9692d3dde3bbbc42a76b68da0efa9d62dee4d;hpb=294f22c5932794232f480d4b97d1291de8b3ab24;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/README.irix b/README.irix index 8ef9692..911a251 100644 --- a/README.irix +++ b/README.irix @@ -92,6 +92,43 @@ and later are okay. Thanks to Hannu Napari for the IRIX pthreads patches information. +=head2 Irix 5.3 + +While running Configure and when building, you are likely to get +quite a few of these warnings: + + ld: + The shared object /usr/lib/libm.so did not resolve any symbols. + You may want to remove it from your link line. + +Ignore them: in IRIX 5.3 there is no way to quieten ld about this. + +During compilation you will see this warning from toke.c: + + uopt: Warning: Perl_yylex: this procedure not optimized because it + exceeds size threshold; to optimize this procedure, use -Olimit option + with value >= 4252. + +Ignore the warning. + +In IRIX 5.3 and with Perl 5.8.1 (Perl 5.8.0 didn't compile in IRIX 5.3) +the following failures are known. + + Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed + -------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ../ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t 0 139 ?? ?? % ?? + ../lib/Math/Trig.t 255 65280 29 12 41.38% 24-29 + ../lib/sort.t 0 138 119 72 60.50% 48-119 + 56 tests and 474 subtests skipped. + Failed 3/811 test scripts, 99.63% okay. 78/75813 subtests failed, 99.90% okay. + +They are suspected to be compiler errors (at least the shuffle.t +failure is known from some IRIX 6 setups) and math library errors +(the Trig.t failure), but since IRIX 5 is long since end-of-lifed, +further fixes for the IRIX are unlikely. If you can get gcc for 5.3, +you could try that, too, since gcc in IRIX 6 is a known workaround for +at least the shuffle.t and sort.t failures. + =head1 AUTHOR Jarkko Hietaniemi