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

[Martin v. Loewis]

Tim Rice <tim@multitalents.net> writes:

> > 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.

Thanks, that is good enough for me to eliminate the special case.

Regards,
Martin