Re: anyone know if this is true?

[wje@fir.esd.sgi.com (William J. Earl)]

Ariel Faigon writes:
 > >
 > >It's not true.  All he has to do is install eoe.hdrs and compiler_eoe.hdrs.
 > >
 > Dave, I'm afraid you're misinformed. The problem is real.
 > Customers cannot build anything on 6.2 even if the install the above
 > subsystems, unless they buy our IDO.
 > 
 > I said it many times, to be able to build anything on 6.2
 > they still miss a linker (the GNU linker is not supported in
 > any official GNU or Cygnus releases on any SGI and we don't include 
 > /usr/lib/crt[1n].o with our headers and libraries)

     Those files are included only in dev.sw.lib, not in irix.sw.irix_lib.
I agree that they should be in the latter.  

     ld is shipped in compiler_eoe.sw.lboot, but it is located under
/usr/cpu/sysgen/root/usr/bin/.