Apply the following change from the main trunk:

2000-11-01 01:05  levitte

	* Configure (1.236), Makefile.org (1.110), CHANGES (1.640): Add
	support for shared libraries under Irix.  Submitted by Albert
	Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>

CHANGES

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.6b and 0.9.6c  [XX xxx XXXX]
 
+  *) Add support for shared libraries under Irix.
+     [Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>]
+
   *) Add configuration option to build on Linux on both big-endian and
      little-endian MIPS.
      [Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]

Makefile.org

@@ -320,6 +320,15 @@ do_svr5-shared:
 	libs="$$libs -l$$i"; \
 	done
 
+# This assumes that GNU utilities are *not* used
+do_irix-shared:
+	libs='${SHLIBDEPS}'; for i in ${SHLIBDIRS}; do \
+	( set -x; ${CC} -shared -o lib$$i.so.${SHLIB_MAJOR}.${SHLIB_MINOR} \
+		-Wl,-soname,lib$$i.so.${SHLIB_MAJOR} \
+		-all lib$$i.a $$libs ${EX_LIBS} -lc) || exit 1; \
+	libs="$$libs -L. -l$$i"; \
+	done
+
 # This assumes that GNU utilities are *not* used
 do_hpux-shared:
 	libs='${SHLIBDEPS}'; for i in ${SHLIBDIRS}; do \