[Distutils] Complling on IRIX OS

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Michel Sanner wrote:
> 
> Greg, sgi has created a real mess. They have 3 ABIs (Application Binary
> Interfaces):
> 
> IRIX supports three ABIs:
> 
>      o32  The old 32-bit ABI which was standard on IRIX 5 systems.
> 
>      n64  The 64-bit ABI which was introduced on IRIX 6.0 systems.
> 
>      n32  The new high performance 32-bit ABI which was introduced on IRIX
>           6.2.
> 

Just in case this hasn't come up yet: you can check for o32,
n64 and n32 using the architecture() API in platform.py (available
from my Python Pages).

Other goodies in platform.py might also help to set some 
reasonable default options for other platforms as well.

FYI, platform.py provides a platform independent way of querying
platform dependent data... (well, look at the code then
you'll know what I mean ;-)

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