Do boehm-gc and libffi work on IRIX?

[Jeff Sturm]

On 3 Jun 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Java is disabled by default on Irix because there is some trick
> required to get it to build.  Offhand I don't recall the details, but
> I'm sure they are in the java list archives.

For Irix you must increase the command-length limit imposed by the kernel.
Root users can use systune.

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#mips-sgi-irix6

Jeff