Re: SGIs

[Patrick McNeill]

I've been running Swarm beta 1002 and v1.x on an Indy R4400 and a few Indy
R5000s (all with Irix 5.3).  I haven't had any problems...

-Patrick McNeill

> OK.  I'm almost ready to release 1.0.2, which includes changes
> that allow Swarm to work on the Alpha.  So, now I can turn
> some of my attention to the SGI problems we've been having.
> 
> Here's the deal....
> 
>   1. JJ Merelo reports a memory allocation alignment problem
>      compiling with an SGI O2 running Irix 6.3.
>   2. Ricardo Serrano also has an SGI O2 and has talked to 
>      SGI (I believe) and affirmed that there shouldn't be
>      any problems due to the 64-bit capabilities of the 
>      machine.
>   3. Several people have expressed problems in installing 
>      the base packages on SGIs: gcc, tcl/tk, etc. 
>   4. And, finally, I've heard rumours that the problem with
>      SGIs resides in gcc.
> 
> Now, I have no idea which parts of these I can deal with and
> which parts I can't.  I now have two accounts on two separate
> SGI machines (graciously donated by two of our community) and
> will try to install everything from scratch.  If *anybody* 
> knows *anything* peculiar to SGIs and the installation of 
> any of our libraries (gcc/objc/tcl/tk/blt/libtclobjc/swarm) 
> OR if anybody is right now, successfully running Swarm on 
> an SGI, then please let Swarm-Support know.
> 
> It might also be nice for everybody interested in running
> Swarm on an SGI to raise their hand and be counted.  And
> maybe explain how far you got in the process of installing
> Swarm.  Until I hear different, I'm going to assume that 
> Swarm isn't running on any SGIs anywhere.
> 
> Thanks.
> glen
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