how do you build a 64-bit library on IRIX

[Brian Gough]

Charles Yee writes:
 > I am using IRIX 6.5 on a SGI Origin.  On this machine, make uses gcc to
 > compile.  Would you know what  flags I would need to set in order to
 > make a 64-bit GSL library?
 > 
 > I have actually tried setting CFLAGS = -mabi=64 and LDFLAGS= -mabi=64.
 > However the build failed. I got the following error:
 > 
 >      ld32: FATAL 12: Expecting n32 objects: sasum.o is n64
 >      collect2: ld returned 4 exit status
 > 

Hmm.. nobody seems to know.  Maybe look on one of the IRIX newsgroups
as it is a general problem. If you find out let me know also and I
will add it to the installation notes.