From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: zsh-workers-request@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA10947 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 01:35:50 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA04404; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:32:32 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:32:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610141529.LAA07344@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Building zsh-3.0.0 SGI IRIX 5.3 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:24:55 +0200." <199610140924.LAA27235@hydra.ifh.de> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 11:29:53 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-ID: <"HQIDa.0.k41.FqbOo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2229 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > Irix 5.3 is known to work, with or without gcc. Sometimes if the gcc > setup is bad configure can be confused into thinking it's > cross-compiling. If you can remove gcc from your path and let > configure use the native cc it might work or give some indication of > what's happening. > > Note to zsh-workers: shouldn't there ideally be a --[no]with-gcc > option to configure? Some GNU software has this. It's not always > right to assume people prefer building with gcc. The installation directions specifically mention that you can use CC=cc ./configure to specify a compiler. That seems sufficient to me, but adding the flags --[no]with-gcc wouldn't be very hard. But I don't think it would add much that we don't already have. rc