Mark Dastmalchi-Round

Mark Dastmalchi-Round

I’m a DevOps architect, musician, animal lover and all-round geek. If it’s got shiny lights on it, makes loud noises or purrs/wags its tail when you stroke it, I’m all for it. When I’m not writing code or fiddling with computers for a living, I produce my own music and provide the low-end rumble for my band in West Sussex.

SGI Irix packages

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Note : This page may contain outdated information and/or broken links; some of the formatting may be mangled due to the many different code-bases this site has been through in over 20 years; my opinions may have changed etc. etc.

I have finally got a working build environment for my SGI IRIX systems (an R14k Fuel and a dual R12k Ocatane2) and have packaged some open-source software for the fantastic Nekoware project. If you’re a fan of classic Unix systems, I strongly recommend heading over to their forums - there’s also a pretty strong Sun and HP contingent there among the SGI fanatics!

Anyway - the two packages I have built so far are the fantastic pv (Pipe Viewer) tool and Mercurial DVCS.  PV is a fantastic utility that can be used to replace "cat", and displays a progress bar on stderr. See the overview for some examples of what you can do with it. Mercurial should need no introduction; I just had to make a couple of minor patches (included in the tardist and submitted upstream).  I’ve tested both local-only repositories, as well as pushing/cloning/pulling from remote HTTP sites. The only problem I have found is that accessing SSL-enabled repositories produces warnings, due to the old version of Python in Nekoware (2.5). Apart from that, it seems to work great - and the projects do seem to get checked out, it just warns you it can’t check the certificate.

Any feedback is always gratefully received; I’m sure there are still some IRIX users out there ;)

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