From d4f2c2d54246e33ccb502c30000b1c1b73600cc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wolf <wolf@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:29:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Note on IRIX

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@2580 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
---
 deal.II/doc/readme.html | 22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme.html b/deal.II/doc/readme.html
index 669308d6c8..d107ae5ed1 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/readme.html
+++ b/deal.II/doc/readme.html
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@
     <ul>
       <li>Linux ELF with egcs 1.1.x and gcc 2.95.x;
       <li>Sun Solaris 2.5, 2.6, and 7, with egcs 1.1.x and gcc 2.95.x;
-      <li>SGI IRIX64 with gcc 2.95.x (with some restrictions on
-          the use of shared libraries);
+      <li>SGI IRIX64 with gcc 2.95.x;
       <li>IBM AIX 4.2, with gcc 2.95.x (with some restrictions on
           the use of shared libraries).
     </ul>
@@ -281,17 +280,16 @@
     <ul>
     <li>
       <p>
-      <code>--enable-shared</code>: Compile the files of deal.II
-      into shared libraries, rather than statically linked
+      <code>--enable-shared</code>: Compile the files of deal.II into
+      shared libraries, rather than statically linked
       libraries. Enabling this option saves disk space, link time and
       start-up time, so this is the default. However, some systems
       might not support shared libraries, in which case you should
       call ./configure with the parameter
-      <code>--disable-shared</code>. (Since on AIX and IRIX64 we could
-      not get shared libraries right immediately, they are disabled by
-      default on these systems. Probably, there is a simple
-      work-around, but since we do not regularly test on these
-      systems, we did not try very hard.)
+      <code>--disable-shared</code>. (Since on AIX we could not get
+      shared libraries right immediately, they are disabled by default
+      on this system. Probably, there is a simple work-around, but
+      since we do not regularly test there, we did not try very hard.)
       </p>
 
       <p>
@@ -303,6 +301,12 @@
       time is significantly reduced.      
       </p>
 
+      <p>
+      For IRIX64 systems, you should note that the paths to the shared
+      libraries need to be included into your
+      <code>$LD_LIBRARY_PATH</code> environment variable.
+      </p>
+
     <li>
       <p>
       <code>--enable-multithreading</code>: This sets compiler
-- 
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