Neither gcc nor vanilla emacs are installed on the Wean Hall SGIs. However, you can run these programs out of the CS distribution. (courtesy Kayvon Pirestani)

Running gcc on the SGIs

alias gcc /afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/gcc/sgi_53/2.7.2/bin/gcc

Running emacs on the SGIs

Here's what I include in my .cshrc for emacs:
if ( `uname -s` == IRIX ) then stty intr ^C unset ignoreeof alias gcc "/afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/gcc/sgi_53/2.7.2/bin/gcc" alias emacs "/afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/gnu-emacs/sgi_53/19.29/bin/emacs" endif

Here is how I set the emacs environment variables in my .login:

if ( `uname -s` == IRIX ) then /usr/bin/X11/xset s off & set path=(. $path /usr/etc) # Emacs environment variables setenv EMACSDATA /afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/gnu-emacs/common/alpha/etc setenv EMACSLOADPATH /afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/gnu-emacs/common/alpha/lisp setenv EMACSLOCKDIR /afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/gnu-emacs/common/alpha/lock setenv EMACSPATH /afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/gnu-emacs/sgi_53/19.29/bin setenv INFOPATH /afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/gnu-emacs/sgi_53/19.29/info endif

You'll get a warning message when you start emacs, but you can ignore it.

Kayvon Pirestani