Allan Schaffer (allan++at++southpark.engr.sgi.com)
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 13:29:41 -0700 (PDT)
Yes and no.
2.0 is not the recommended release for 6.5 but it seems to work ok,
within reason. A while back I did some cursory tests with
plain-jane-2.0 loaded on 6.5 systems just to see if there were
installation conflicts (and to see whether perfly worked) and it
seemed fine, at least in 32-bit mode. I am doubtful that 64-bit mode
2.0 would work at all in 6.5.
IRIX 6.5 ships with performer_eoe 2.2.1, which includes backwards-
compatability DSOs so you can still run 2.0-based apps. That release
(2.2.[x]) plus patch 3229 is what I'd recommend for users running
IRIX 6.5.
As one further caveat: "supported" is an overloaded term, meaning
"can it work" to most people, but to SGI tech support folks
'supported' means "we will troubleshoot & help fix problems". I
would bet that if you had big problems with 2.0 on 6.5, SGI tech
support would simply recommend that you upgrade to 2.2[.x], since
many such things have been fixed.
Allan
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