Some popular freeware for SGI IRIX
Last Modified: Nov 2, 1998
Note: this is an archive of Ariel Faigon's old web pages.
Intro |
db 1.85 |
top-3.4 |
gcc-2.7.2.2 |
ldd
- gcc 2.8.1
- libstdc++
- a2ps
- xemacs
- strace
- samba
- pine
- imap
- tin
- fetchmail
- cdrecord
- mkisofs
Introduction
Here's some often requested freeware that was ported-to or built
and tested on SGI IRIX systems.
This freeware is made available with sincere hope that you'll find
it useful yet it is provided as is and with no claims
beyond "it works for me" and no warranties of any kind.
SGI software is also available elsewhere.
Particularly, I would like to recommend you check out the
comprehensive
anon ftp list compiled by Bill Henderson,
Scott Henry's distributions
of the newest
perl, emacs and xntp, The
excellent SGI software archive maintained by Wessel de Roode
,
and the SGI
freeware CDs on Silicon Surf.
I put here only a few packages that are either not available
elsewhere, or that are so system dependent so they break
between OS releases, or that are simply requested frequently
enough on the net to make this effort worthwhile.
Note: depending on the version or your mailcap
configs your web browser may try to display some compressed files
rather than saving them to your local disk.
In Netscape you may use the SHIFT mouse-button,
or right mouse button instead of the left to force
a Save-As.
Please verify the sizes and checksums after downloading
to make sure these files were not tampered with, or otherwise corrupted.
Let me know ASAP if they are. Also, please let me know which
software you would like me to add (without promising
anything, of course ;-). Any feedback, good or bad may
help make this more useful in the future so please
email me your comments.
If you're interested in building freeware on IRIX yourself, please
check out these notes on building freeware on IRIX.
Berkeley DB 1.85 and 1.86
A replacement for dbm/ndbm with many enhancements.
Ported to IRIX, verified to work on IRIX 5.3, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4,
and 6.5. The libdb-1.85.tar.Z file includes
the following (o32 and n32 libraries + header file):
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 106468 Nov 26 16:58 1996 usr/lib/libdb.so
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 145508 Nov 26 10:50 1996 usr/lib32/libdb.so
-r--r--r-- root/sys 8516 Apr 1 17:58 1996 usr/include/db.h
The file libdb-man.tar.Z includes the man pages
in both original and preformatted+packed formats:
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 8373 Feb 25 11:50 1997 btree.3
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 13488 Feb 25 11:50 1997 dbopen.3
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 5350 Feb 25 11:50 1997 hash.3
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 6026 Feb 25 11:50 1997 mpool.3
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 6914 Feb 25 11:50 1997 recno.3
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 5774 Feb 25 11:50 1997 btree.z
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 10173 Feb 25 11:50 1997 dbopen.z
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 3293 Feb 25 11:50 1997 hash.z
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 5201 Feb 25 11:50 1997 mpool.z
-rw-r--r-- root/sys 4698 Feb 25 11:50 1997 recno.z
The file libdb-1.8x-src.tar.Z includes the full
source code of the distribution of both db.1.85
and db.1.86 plus a common parent directory
libdb where you can get an idea on how
to compile both versions on SGI with -n32
and -64 bit support.
Notes:
- db 1.85 has a bug that causes loss of data
integrity for large key/value pairs.
- db 1.86 fixes the bug. Unfortunately,
its
DB_HASH method is significantly slower than 1.85.
Top 3.4 with enhancements
Top is a process display utility which continuously displays
your machine process state. It sorts the processes in a "most
demanding first" order. Processes can be sorted by percentage
of CPU, memory consumption order and more. They can also be
manipulated (killed, reniced) from the top display and more.
This executable was compiled on 6.2 and verified to run on
6.2, 6.3, and 6.4. IRIX 6.5 includes this version of top
(plus a few fixes) as standard.
On multiprocessor machines it supports the cpu_id field for
running processes. It also supports all the SGI advanced
scheduling schemes (weightless, real-time
processes etc.) Full source code is also provided in case
you would like to build it yourself or learn by example
about IRIX procfs interfaces.
gr_top is merely a perl wrapper which runs
top inside a xwsh window. It emulates
the old direct IRIX GL gr_top in a way that can be
run remotely displaying on any machine that supports X Window.
Note: this top will not
run on 5.x systems because they have a COFF (rather than ELF)
based kernel. Sorry.
The file top-3.4.tar.Z includes the top
executable, gr_top, and a man page for IRIX top:
-rwxr-sr-x root/sys 85920 Jun 25 13:15 1997 top
-rwxr-xr-x root/sys 2064 Feb 5 14:58 1997 gr_top
-r--r--r-- root/sys 14281 Jun 4 16:01 1997 top.1
top needs to be installed setgid sys
to be able to read /dev/kmem. i.e. you should:
% chgrp sys top
% chmod g+s top
After you install it.
gcc 2.7.2.2
gcc 2.8.1
- In inst format
(.tardist); installs directly from the web
- Generates n32/64 ABIs (but not o32)
- Includes
g++, objective-C, protoize, unprotoize, gcov
- Requires the SGI assembler and linker (available free w/ IRIX 6.5,
or IDO in the package
compiler_dev.sw.base)
- Installs in
/usr/freeware
Note: Both gcc 2.8.1 (+ a few recent patches)
and libstdc++ have officially moved to
the SGI freeware distribution
please download it from there.
Other
ldd
ldd: list dynamic dependencies,
is a standard utility on some other Unix systems (notably Linux
and Solaris). It does what its name implies: lists the library
dependencies of a linked executable or DSO. Note that the
IRIX ``elfdump -Dl'' just lists the libraries that an executable
was linked with but not the full path of those that are actually used,
plus it doesn't care about environment variables that may affect
the DSO resolution and its interface (multiple options) is big and
complex for many.
I implemented the ldd functionality in perl5, by relying standard
IRIX utilities such as file, and elfdump.
plus some reading of man dso. This is a straight
perl script, just put it wherever you wish. This ldd is
a two hours or so hack inspired by numerous requests for such
tool on IRIX. Requests for enhancements and bug reports would
be greatly appreciated. [Download].
Is your favorite freeware missing?
Please email drk@sgi.com
and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks to Steve Alexander for making me create this site
and to all of you that keep sending me comments.
