From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 18:46:34 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add a note about possible compilation problems from Allen Smith. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=44e4f4cc010858081ec3042ec4cadb841cd3b66a;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Add a note about possible compilation problems from Allen Smith. p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6097 --- diff --git a/hints/irix_6.sh b/hints/irix_6.sh index 8be23ac..7139c85 100644 --- a/hints/irix_6.sh +++ b/hints/irix_6.sh @@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ # Don't bother with -n32 unless you have the 7.1 or later compilers. # But there's no quick and light-weight way to check in 6.2. +# NOTE: some IRIX cc versions, e.g. 7.3.1.1m (try cc -version) +# have been known to have issues (coredumps) when compiling perl.c. +# Dropping optimization to -O2 and removing -LNO,-INLINE, etc, +# and most importantly removing -OPT:fast_IO=ON, has been known +# to help. -- Allen Smith + # Let's assume we want to use 'cc -n32' by default, unless the # necessary libm is missing (which has happened at least twice) case "$cc" in