[Python-Dev] Removing support for IRIX 4 dynamic linking

Tim Rice tim@multitalents.net
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:35:53 -0800 (PST)


On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

>
> Does anybody know whether the comment
>
> # Most SVR4 platforms (e.g. Solaris) need -lsocket and -lnsl.
> # However on SGI IRIX, these exist but are broken.
>
> applies to IRIX 5 or later?

I have don't IRIX here, but in OpenSSH we don't do anything special
around libsocket or libnsl on IRIX 5 or IRIX 6.

>
> Regards,
> Martin
>

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