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Re: : 20000419: Binaries for IRIX (fwd)


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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:40:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Arthur A. Person <address@hidden>
To: Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: : 20000419: Binaries for IRIX (fwd)


On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Steve Chiswell wrote:

> My C compiler is 7.2.3.1, yours is 7.1.
> Our system administrator called SGI and they said that there were some
> major changes in the 7.2 version that were not backwards compatible.
> 
> I placed out libc.so.1 in the irix binary directory. If you want to
> see if this solves you problems, then download this into the
> $GEMLIB directory and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable
> to the $GEMLIB directory so that the loader will search there for the
> C library. You will need to create a link from libc.so.1 to libc.so
> as well in that directory as well. I don't know if other libraries 
> might crop up with incompatibilities- but at least you can give this a shot.

I tried it, and it works, at least as much as I tested it.  We'll try it
this way for awhile.  At least I know what the problem is.  Thanks for you
help.

                                       Art.

Arthur A. Person
Research Assistant, System Administrator
Penn State Department of Meteorology
email:  address@hidden, phone:  814-863-1563