Re: AbiWord on an SGI Indigo ??


Subject: Re: AbiWord on an SGI Indigo ??
From: Dean Luick (luick@cray.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 13:25:33 CST


On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:22:58AM +0000, J.L.Gilmour@exeter.ac.uk wrote:
>
> I have an SGI Indigo - IP20 board, 150Mhz R4000 processor, 192Mb RAM,
> Irix 6.5.6 etc.etc. After painful downloading over modem of the IRIX
> version of AbiWord, it reports it will not run on my 'platform'.

You can't run it because the supplied executable is compiled for to a mips4
ABI (r5000+ processors). The r4000 is a mips3 ABI.

I have been trying to build Abi on an irix system, but have been failing
due to lack of time and problems associated with machine setup (which I
have no control over).

Dean



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