[1452] in Release_7.7_team
Re: serious problem with BioSym on some IRIX 6.2 machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Aug 12 17:31:54 1998
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, wdc@MIT.EDU, mbarker@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU,
release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:18:16 EDT."
<199808122118.RAA05155@kiko.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:31:50 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>Of these, only 2458 is installed; I didn't try uninstalling it. Since,
>as your later mail indicated, we have their workaround of making it
>think it's running on 5.3, I don't think we want to consider removing
>the patch.
Yes- definitely- if the work-around holds up, we shouldn't start messing
with patches... I'd still like to know the underlying cause, and if SGI
is really the culprit... if so it might bite us again. I did try compiling
an OpenGL-using application on one of the problem machines, and it
ran OK... also a random sampling of some of our other Third Party apps...
A.
