We were planning to drop support for IRIX in GNU Emacs 25 anyway, as SGI itself dropped support for IRIX last year, so perhaps the simplest fix would be to add a NEWS item that IRIX is no longer supported.
Here's what 'report-emacs-bug' says when I run temacs: In GNU Emacs 24.3.94 (mips-sgi-irix6.5, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2014-10-02 on eilat.math.utah.edu Configured using: `configure --with-png=no' Important settings: locale-coding-system: nil Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: ESC [ > 1 ; 3 4 0 9 ; 0 c ESC x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g RET Recent messages: Loading vc/vc-hooks...done Loading vc/ediff-hook...done Loading uniquify...done Loading electric...done Loading tooltip...done Loading leim/leim-list.el (source)...done Finding pointers to doc strings...done Pure-hashed: 23666 strings, 3452 vectors, 37059 conses, 3244 bytecodes, 82 others For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Loading loadup.el (source)...done Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils xterm time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dynamic-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 74681 6253) (symbols 24 17475 0) (miscs 20 70 121) (strings 16 8941 5045) (string-bytes 1 252394) (vectors 8 11588) (vector-slots 4 912391 35362) (floats 8 63 219) (intervals 28 149 238) (buffers 512 12))
irix-6.5.txt
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