On 09.03.2005 Jan Schaumann wrote:

> Staffan Thomen <duck@multi.fi> wrote:
>
>> Jan Schaumann wrote:
>> | Timo Schoeler <wanker4freedom@web.de> wrote:
>> |
>> |
>> |>yip, i have the MIPSPro compiler here (v7.3), but have not 
>> installed it
>> |>yet. i don't have a license, but i'll give it i try within the next 
>> few
>> |>days. nevertheless, it should work with gcc, shouldn't it?
>> |
>> |
>> | Yes, it should work.  I'll bootstrap my IRIX machine with gcc some 
>> time
>> | this weekend to make sure.
>>
>> This might not work actually, AFAIR mipspro exits with a non-zero 
>> status
>> when a license is not installed, so you can use it to compile files
>> (with the warnings) but automating it any way will fail.
>
> Really?  Huh.
>
> Maybe it behaves differently if a license is installed, but the license
> server is not reachable?  B/c I know that once or twice during my
> bulk-builds the license server went down, and the bulk build continued
> without interrupting the package built.
>
> Oh well, as I said, gcc should work fine, too.

hi jan,

have you tried this over the weekend (as you mailed)? i haven't tried 
the MIPSPro yet, but as this seems to be 'a hard thang' (TM) w/o 
license, i'd like to go the gcc way ;)

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