Re: Building zsh-3.0.0 SGI IRIX 5.3

[Richard Coleman <coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Irix 5.3 is known to work, with or without gcc.  Sometimes if the gcc
> setup is bad configure can be confused into thinking it's
> cross-compiling.  If you can remove gcc from your path and let
> configure use the native cc it might work or give some indication of
> what's happening.
> 
> Note to zsh-workers: shouldn't there ideally be a --[no]with-gcc
> option to configure?  Some GNU software has this.  It's not always
> right to assume people prefer building with gcc.

The installation directions specifically mention that you can use

CC=cc ./configure

to specify a compiler.  That seems sufficient to me, but adding
the flags --[no]with-gcc wouldn't be very hard.  But I don't think
it would add much that we don't already have.

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