mips-sgi-irix6.5 installation

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < orbtgxwoyu.fsf@dcc.unicamp.br >you write:
  > On Apr  9, 1999, Jeffrey A Law <law@upchuck.cygnus.com> wrote:
  > 
  > >   In message <36FF67D8.7ED63C35@itam.cas.cz>you write:
  > >> Hi, I am not able to successfully compile egcs-1.1.2 on sgi indy (R4000
  > >> cpu).  The compilation stops when assembling the libstdc++.so for
  > >> -mabi=64. (due to the non-existent  64 bit library libm.so) As we have
  > >> 32-bit cpu, we do not use 64 bit mode. How can I prevent the -mabi=64
  > >> step of the build procedure? I would like to avoid the manual editing of
  > >> makefiles.
  > > I believe you can use "--disable-multilib" at configure time to prevent t
  > he
  > > building of all the various libraries for the different MIPS ABIs.
  > 
  > It seems that I'm not the only one affected by the lack of 64bit
  > libraries.  Would anyone dislike a patch that would test whether
  > /usr/lib64/libc.so exists, and disable multilibs on IRIX6 if it does
  > not?
Or if we could just disable the 64bit libraries in that case.  But that's
quite a bit more difficult :-)

jeff