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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: Re: compiling for SGI / IRIX 3.3.1
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Summary: no problems here
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 91 18:53:07 GMT

In article <3093@sparko.gwu.edu> wilhite@seas.gwu.edu () writes:
>I'm having a bit of trouble compiling elm 2.3 PL11 for our SGI systems
>running IRIX 3.3.1.  It makes nasty remarks when compiling
>
>	cc  -O -I../hdrs    -c elm.c
>	uopt: Warning: main: part(s) of procedure have no exit point
>
>and sometimes hangs while reading the mailbox.  Anyone have experience
>compiling elm for this machine?

I've installed ELM on two SGI PI 4D/25's with no problems other than one
with vfork().  The SGI implementation of vfork() is apprently buggy, so
I was advised by people on the net to change config.sh to undefine it.
As I recall this was the only necessary change.

As for the uopt warning, I've compiled very few programs that did not
generate this warning!

-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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