Re: Config error with irix 5.3

[Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>]

Nik Gervae wrote:
> Can anyone shed light on how to get zsh to build on irix 5.3? I haven't
> a clue how to fix the config script....
> 
> tankgirl:~/zsh-> ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> configuring for zsh 3.0.0
> checking host system type... mips-sgi-irix5.3
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether we are using GNU C... no
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> checking for working const... no
> checking whether cross-compiling... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... no
> checking for function prototypes... no
> checking size of long... configure: error: can not run test program while cro
> ss
> compiling

I am using the latest zsh under irix 5.3 right now, so there's no
basic problem.  For starters, it looks like your gcc set up is
defective in some way, since it's found gcc and decided it isn't GNU
C, so you could try removing gcc from your path then reconfiguring.

However, it looks like it's worse than that since then configure tries
the usual tricks for the standard compiler (/lib/cpp) and then decides
it's cross compiling.  If it's any help, here's my corresponding
configure output without gcc in the path. cc is /usr/bin/cc.

creating cache ./config.cache
configuring for zsh 3.0.1-test
checking host system type... mips-sgi-irix5.3
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... cc
checking whether we are using GNU C... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for working const... yes
checking whether cross-compiling... no
checking for cc option to accept ANSI C... 
checking for function prototypes... yes
checking size of long... 4

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