building egcs on Irix 6.5.4

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199907230243.WAA25390@vireo.research.bell-labs.com >you write:
  > 
  > > /files1/gnu/egcs-1.1.2/irix65/build/gcc/xgcc
  > > -B/files1/gnu/egcs-1.1.2/irix65/build/gcc/ -g -O2 -fno-implicit-templates
  > > -mabi=64  -shared -o libstdc++.so.2.9.0 `cat piclist` -lm
  > > ld64: FATAL   9  : I/O error (-lm): No such file or directory
  > > collect2: ld returned 32 exit status
  > 
  > i just had this problem myself.  it indicates that the libs for your abi 
  >  (n 64 in this case) are not installed.
Correct.  Note that gcc-2.95 will detect this situation and handle it
gracefully.

jeff