[SDL] SDL on irix

[gtxayf1q001 at sneakemail.com]

I tried to install SDL on a SGI O2 / IRIX 6.5
machine, and ran into some problems. IRIX is 
listed as a supported OS, but I'm failing to
find any more information about it.

I got the 1.2.5 sources. Then spent some time wondering 
why it would want to install to some absolute path like 
/usr/lib, can't do that without root account. But luckily 
I found --prefix just before coming to ask here.

../configure --prefix=/myhomedir/SDL
reports only one problem:

checking for ESD - version >= 0.2.8... no
*** The esd-config script installed by ESD could not be found
*** If ESD was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the ESD_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to esd-config.

What is ESD and does this matter?

At least, it didn't seem it matter, since compilation
succeeded. Then I had to add SDL/bin to PATH and SDL/lib 
to LD_LIBRARY_N32_PATH, and then ran into the real problem.

Trying to build the tests or run any program compiled with 
gcc -o test test.c `sdl-config --cflags --libs` 
results in

19807:./test: rld: Error: unresolvable symbol in /myhomedir/SDL/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.1: SDL_PrivateKeyboard
19807:./test: rld: Error: unresolvable symbol in /myhomedir/SDL/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.1: SDL_TranslateUNICODE
19807:./test: rld: Error: unresolvable symbol in /myhomedir/SDL/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.1: X11_EnableAutoRefresh
19807:./test: rld: Error: unresolvable symbol in /myhomedir/SDL/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.1: X11_DisableAutoRefresh
19807:./test: rld: Error: unresolvable symbol in /myhomedir/SDL/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.1: SDL_BuildAudioCVT
19807:./test: rld: Error: unresolvable symbol in /myhomedir/SDL/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.1: SDL_mutexP
19807:./test: rld: Error: unresolvable symbol in /myhomedir/SDL/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.1: SDL_SYS_StartTimer
....

Is the IRIX port incomplete or am I just missing 
some all-important installation step?