[jwhat]

Hi SGIer's,

I as part of project to provide "better" way to bootstrap GNU and other software from source on old SGI IRIX boxes, I have been working on getting the current "Berkeley make" (bmake) working on IRIX.

Thanks to Simon Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net> who maintains bmake for NetBSD & FreeBSD, there is now a new "beta" version available for testing.

I have tested it on IRIX 6.5.30, please give a run to see if it works on your IRIX machine.

The beta can be found here:
- https://www.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/beta/...711.tar.gz

If you can't get this (as it has gone), then the IRIX updates will have been merged into current release, which is here:
- https://www.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/bmake.tar.gz

I built with MIPSPro 64 bit mips4 (on Fuel), configure was:
./configure CC=c99 CFLAGS="-64 -mips4 -O2" LDFLAGS="-64 -mips4" prefix=<WHERE YOU WANT IT INSTALLED>

Big thank you to Simon for helping to get this refreshed to work with IRIX.

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John