configure + Irix64 problem

[Randall Hopper]

Quinn Dunkan:
 |When compiling python on an indigo2, I ran up against a little problem:
 |`uname -s` returns 'IRIX64', which means python looks for platform-specific
 |modules in plat-irix646 and doesn't find any, so imports of FCNTL etc. fail,
 |and you have to manually hack the config.status (or whatever) file to change
 |MACHDEP to irix6.
 |
 |I'm not sure if the python library should acquire plat-irix646, or if
 |configure should be modified to read IRIX64 as IRIX, but the current
 |behaviour is probably a bug...

FWIW, Python configures, builds, installs, and runs fine here for IRIX64.
IRIX 6.5.5f with the SGI compiler.

If you want to override and build n32, this works:

    env SGI_ABI=-n32 configure ...

Randall