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Apologies if you have already seen this article, but I had some problems with
our news posting software.

Is it possible to compile gcc-2.4.5 under IRIX 5.0.1 on an SGI Onyx machine ?
I keep  running into problems with  the   mips-tfile program  which complains
bitterly about some file in /tmp containing 0 bytes instead of  96.  The file
mips-tfile.c appears to have something to do with COFF format files.

Is this the problem, as IRIX 5.0.1 now uses the ELF format for  library files
instead of COFF  ?   I noticed there  was a comment about gcc  not working on
Sony NEWS machines running 5.0.2 as they had switched to ELF instead of COFF.
Is this the same problem ?

Has anybody out there successfully compiled gcc-2.4.5 under IRIX  5.0.1 ?  Is
it  possible to  hack  together a  different set of  config  files  that will
persuade it to compile and use ELF instead of COFF ?

I already have the SGI cc compiler and libraries  so  that isn't the problem.
However, I would like a C++ compiler and gcc seemed like a good idea...

Hope someone can help,
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Glenn Coombs,                                  I have NOT lost my mind -
Philips Research Labs,                     it's backed up on tape somewhere !
Redhill,
ENGLAND.                     email: glenn@prl.philips.co.uk