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Article: 13293 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Building Kermit 8.0.201 on Irix 6.5
Date: 5 Apr 2002 09:19:19 -0500
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In article <ykTr8AeH4m+a.fHR9ssFH6H2M@play.net>,
Dark Moon <the.earth.below@play.net> wrote:
: As seen from comp.protocols.kermit.misc, on
: 4 Apr 2002 09:23:41 -0500, fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote:
:
: >In article <RV+q8AeH4usM092yn@cinenet.net>,
: >Dark Moon <the.earth.below@cinenet.net> wrote:
: >: I've tried cc and gcc both. Here are some results:
: >:
: >I built it on IRIX 6.5 too, using the regular "make irix65" target,
: >with no errors; you can find the resulting binary at:
:
: Well, I found the source of that problem, and it was a little
: surprising: I can only guess that extracting the kermit archive put me
: over quota (though du shows otherwise), so a number of files came out
: 0-byte. There is enough room in /tmp to build in, though.
:
: Now for the next problem. The SGI 'cc' can't seem to find 'wopt.so'...
:
This is something strange about your site. No such problem at other sites.
The easy way around this one is to remove the optimize directive (-O3 in
this case) from the target.
: Now, I was able to find wopt.so in another directory. Tech support
: told me to use -rpath to tell the compiler where it is, but that didn't
: seem to work, as I got the same exact error...
:
Most cc's have a -L switch that lets you give the path for libraries.
: I tried without -DSELECT and -DFNFLOAT, then added them in. In all
: cases Kermit built successfully and without errors, but I noticed some
: problems right away with the ICP: the 'dir' command doesn't work, and
: neither does tab-filename completion. Just to be sure, I built this
: same verson (201) on Solaris 2.6 with gcc, and these features worked
: just fine.
:
All bets are off if you don't use the appropriate makefile target.
What happens if you FTP the prebuilt IRIX 6.5 binary to your site
(/tmp if you don't have space in your own directory)?
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80binaries.html#sgi
It should work. Then just ask the sysadmins to install it. If they
want more detailed instructions, they can look at:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckuins.html
- Frank