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Re: PATCH: Don't assume XPG5 support on IRIX 5 in s-oscons-tmplt.c


Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com> writes:

>> Anyway, the error is that again the assumption has crept in that
>> __mips&&__sgi means IRIX 6, which is wrong: IRIX 5.3 doesn't define
>> either _XOPEN5 or _XOPEN_IOV_MAX.  The trivial patch below fixes this
>> and allowed the IRIX 5.3 bootstrap to continue.
>
> Did you consider stopping support for IRIX 5.3? That's a pretty old OS version
> at this stage.

Right, bootstrap on the machines I have (two Indigo2) takes about a
week.  Yet there seems to be still some demand: I get both requests and
bug reports.

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University


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