Compiling Predict under IRIX 6.5

Some time ago we pensioned off 5 SGI Challenge S systems that we inherited as part of a contract. As we couldn't get rid of the SGI's and by modern standards they are almost as slow as George W Bush, I decided to see what else they could be used for, so had a go at compiling Predict on one.

The non-y2k IRIX 5.2 was upgraded by one of my colleagues to IRIX 6.5, and I have also installed several packages from http://freeware.sgi.com/ including the GCC suite which was used to compile Predict.

The only change that I made was to build to include the libraries etc., that are outside the normal directory trees

gcc predict-2.2.1jh2.c -Wall -O3 -s -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/freeware/include/ncurses -L/usr/freeware/lib32 -lm -lmenu -lncurses -lpthread -o predict

(I ran predict in an RXVT and had to do a 'export TERM=rxvt' so that predict would run in colour, as the default terminal type was 'xterm')

Acknowledgements must go to John A Magliacane, KD2BD for his excellent satellite tracking program which I used as a base...