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3.10.10 SGI Irix 5.X

If you are building in a tree separate from the source tree, the vendors version of make does not work properly with regards to `VPATH'. It also has problems with standard inference rules in 5.2 (not tested yet in 5.3) so one needs to use GNU's make.

Under 5.2, there is a bug in the optional System V -lsocket library in which the routine gethostbyname() is broken. The system supplied version in -lc appears to work though so one may simply specify --with-netlib option to `configure'.

In 5.3, gethostbyname() is no longer present in -lsocket and is no longer an issue.