Porting to IRIX

[Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn]

On 10 Dec 1998, Sebastian Strollo wrote:

> "Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn@REDACTED> writes:
> 
> > 	I seem to suddenly need erlang on IRIX and Linux.  Everything
> > works fine on Linux, of course.  But now I'm porting erlang to IRIX 6.5.
> > (64 bit)  I will post all my changes back to this list for people to use.
> > For the moment however, I'm not changing things in a cross-platform
> > manner.  I'm simply making changes so things work.  (Hack and slash
> > method.)  When I get a little better at autoconf I'll make fixes the
> > correct way.
> 
> Well if you figure out what is needed I can get it into autoconf.

	Okay.  I'll make the patch files in a few days.

> The system used to be a lot more portable, as time went by more people
> started working with it and we were under pressure to produce versions
> for specific OS's... So the system is a bit less portable today
> unfortunately, but our aim is to fix these things as possible so it's
> great to see people running it on all kinds of things!

	Ah!  That explains things a bit.  :^)

> > 	I've now compiled the package on the SGI.  However, it seg faults
> > on startup.  So here is the stack dump.  There seem to be two problems --
> > the first is a memory allocation failure.  The second is a seg fault in
> > the reporting of that error.  :^)
> 
> I don't know about 6.5 (we don't have any IRIX boxes here) but Shawn
> Pearce sent us this earlier:
> 
> Shawn Pearce <pearcs@REDACTED> writes:
>  > Adding these 4 lines to sys.conf lets Erlang compile and run on Irix 6.3.  I
>  > haven't checked 6.4 yet.  
>  > 
>  > #ifdef __sgi  
>  > # define    vfork() fork()
>  > # define EXTRA_POINTER_BITS 0x10000000
>  > #endif

	Umm...  I don't seem to have a file called sys.conf.  I'll see if
I can find some other file which might work as well...

						-Ben

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