"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can get gcc to run on Irix, but it's Irix support is horrible and > it is unable to build a working version FlightGear because it > generates old style object files which can't be linked against Irix's > new style system libraries.
That's not quite correct. GCC is able to create binary compatible objects, but you have to stick to N64 binaries, because GCC's N32 format is the one that is incompatible. GCC's support for the O32 format has been removed. > (Don't ask, you don't want to know. Irix can generate about a dozen > different object file format varients, none of which are compatible > with each other. Nah, do you remember libc4, libc5, glibc on Linux ? When you stick to use binary distributions you even have to worry about incompatibilities between glibc-2.2 and glibc-2.3 - in some parts you even have to worry if you build from source. I have an old Linux system that I set up October 1993 and that I'm maintaining with the compiler since then. You can assume that I have quite a wide variety of binary formats on this system ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
