Ross Barna (rbarna++at++engin.umich.edu)
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:19:04 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Allan Schaffer wrote:
> On Sep 4, 12:14pm, Ross Barna wrote:
> > is performer 2.0 supported in irix 6.5?
>
> 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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> Allan Schaffer allan++at++sgi.com
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>
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