X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/271230c22b8c23953affd712b07d1ecad698e3ec..0b657b1955a40e49c93ca32fe32822f4a8a5205b:/README.irix diff --git a/README.irix b/README.irix index ca6ec2c..2968a607 100644 --- a/README.irix +++ b/README.irix @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ specifically designed to be readable as is. =head1 NAME -README.irix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems +perlirix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -94,25 +94,46 @@ and later are okay. =head2 Irix 5.3 +While running Configure and when building, you are likely to get +quite a few of these warnings: + + ld: + The shared object /usr/lib/libm.so did not resolve any symbols. + You may want to remove it from your link line. + +Ignore them: in IRIX 5.3 there is no way to quieten ld about this. + +During compilation you will see this warning from toke.c: + + uopt: Warning: Perl_yylex: this procedure not optimized because it + exceeds size threshold; to optimize this procedure, use -Olimit + option with value >= 4252. + +Ignore the warning. + In IRIX 5.3 and with Perl 5.8.1 (Perl 5.8.0 didn't compile in IRIX 5.3) the following failures are known. Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- + ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ../ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t 0 139 ?? ?? % ?? + ../lib/Math/Trig.t 255 65280 29 12 41.38% 24-29 ../lib/sort.t 0 138 119 72 60.50% 48-119 - 54 tests and 430 subtests skipped. - Failed 2/767 test scripts, 99.74% okay. 72/70246 subtests failed, 99.90% okay. - -They are suspected to be compiler errors (at least the shuffle.t failure is -known from some IRIX 6 setups), but since IRIX 5 is long since end-of-lifed, -fixes for the IRIX compiler are unlikely. If you can get gcc for 5.3, + 56 tests and 474 subtests skipped. + Failed 3/811 test scripts, 99.63% okay. 78/75813 subtests failed, + 99.90% okay. + +They are suspected to be compiler errors (at least the shuffle.t +failure is known from some IRIX 6 setups) and math library errors +(the Trig.t failure), but since IRIX 5 is long since end-of-lifed, +further fixes for the IRIX are unlikely. If you can get gcc for 5.3, you could try that, too, since gcc in IRIX 6 is a known workaround for -these failures. +at least the shuffle.t and sort.t failures. =head1 AUTHOR Jarkko Hietaniemi -Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to F. +Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to +L.