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Last mod; September 23, 1994

FASTLINK Portability Information for IRIX

IRIX is an implementation of UNIX for SGI workstations. The following portability information was reported by David Featherstone.

Versions 2.1 and beyond of FASTLINK ports fine to IRIX, but some two minor changes to the Makefile may be necessary for compilation.

Change 1. Use the cc compiler, instead of gcc.

Change 2. You may need to pass the -cckr flag to the compiler depending on your system. You may do this by editing the line in the Makefile that reads: 

  #SYSDEP =
and changing it to: 
  SYSDEP = -cckr
It may be the case that gcc works on IRIX too, but David has not verified this. The changes beyond version 2.1 should not create any new problems.

I am not aware of any available versions of the auxiliary programs for IRIX. David reports that with the assistance of a system administrator at his site, he was able to modify the HP/UX versions of the auxiliary programs (obtained from the Utah FTP site) to run on IRIX. The above Makefile modifications would be necessary in the Makefile for each auxiliary program. David kindly sent a file-by-file diff of the HP/UX auxiliary programs compared to what he uses on IRIX. This diff can be found in the file 3.0P/irix/auxiliary.diff under the fastlink directory.

To run parallel FASTLINK, refer to the README.p4 for IRIX-specific notes.

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