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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ If you want to build with multi-threading support and you are
running Linux 2.x (with the LinuxThreads library installed:
that's the linuxthreads and linuxthreads-devel RPMs for RedHat)
or Digital UNIX 4.x or Solaris 2.x for recentish x (2.5 is OK)
+or IRIX 6.2 or newer (6.2 will require a few os patches),
then you should be able to use
./Configure -Dusethreads -Doptimize=-g -ders
make
@@ -42,6 +43,19 @@ For Digital Unix 4.x:
Zap mallocobj and mallocsrc (foo='')
Change d_mymalloc to undef
For Solaris, do the same as for Linux above.
+For IRIX:
+ Add -DUSE_THREADS -DDEBUGGING to ccflags
+ Add -DUSE_THREADS -DDEBUGGING to cppflags
+ Add -lpthread to libs
+ Change optimize to -g
+ For IRIX 6.2, you have to have the following patches installed:
+ 1404 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b man pages
+ 1645 IRIX 6.2 & 6.3 POSIX header file updates
+ 2000 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b support modules
+ 2254 Pthread library fixes
+ For IRIX 6.3 and 6.4 the pthreads should work out of the box.
+ Thanks to Hannu Napari <Hannu.Napari@hut.fi> for the IRIX
+ pthreads patches information.
Now you can do a
make