[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/MACHINES

[Eli Zaretskii]

Index: emacs/etc/MACHINES
diff -c emacs/etc/MACHINES:1.13 emacs/etc/MACHINES:1.14
*** emacs/etc/MACHINES:1.13     Fri Apr 12 12:59:40 2002
--- emacs/etc/MACHINES  Sat Apr 13 06:50:32 2002
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    flag or otherwise (see cc(1)).  This may work on earlier Irix 6
    systems if you edit src/s/irix6-0.h following irix6-5.h.
  
+   Building Emacs 21.1 and 21.2 on versions of Irix before 6.5.10,
+   especially when Emacs is built with GCC, was reported to have subtle
+   problems such as being unable to print to stdout under the -batch
+   command-line option.  Building with the native compiler or upgrading
+   the OS to a newer version solves these problems.  There's evidence
+   that these problems are actually related to the runtime libraries
+   (before IRIX 6.5.10, the IRIX runtimes were based on the MIPSpro 7.2
+   compilers), so installing patches for the runtime from
+   http://www.sgi.com/support/patch_intro.html could solve the problem
+   even without upgrading the OS.  The dump process is the crucial
+   step that needs the upgraded runtime, so a workaround is to dump
+   Emacs on a machine with a newer OS, then copy the binary to the
+   older OS.
+ 
    If compiling with GCC on Irix 6 yields an error "conflicting types
    for `initstate'", install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this
    problem should go away.  It is possible that this problem results