From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Oct 22 09:40:15 1999 Subject: IRIX problems and solutions From: Ben Sapp To: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:40:11 -0600 munge-texi fails to compile on IRIX. The reason is that it seems to have some c++ symbols that are really large when the names get mangled. The GNU assembler can handle them, but the IRIX assembler can not. The GNU assembler does not work on IRIX though. So, the -fsquangle option is needed when you compile. This means that to compile on IRIX a person need a GNU C compiler newer than egcs 1.1. It is probably unwise to compile the entire distribution with the -fsquangle option. The gcc manual explains why: ---gcc manual excerpt --- `-fsquangle' will enable a compressed form of name mangling for identifiers. In particular, it helps to shorten very long names by recognizing types and class names which occur more than once, replacing them with special short ID codes. This option also requires any C++ libraries being used to be compiled with this option as well. The compiler has this disabled (the equivalent of `-fno-squangle') by default. ---gcc manual excerpt--- Also I hope that it does not need to be linked with other programs in the fututre as that will complicate things Further. -- Ben Sapp Los Alamos National Laboratory email: Phone: (505)667-3277 Fax: (505)665-7920 URL: http://www.neutrino.lanl.gov/ --