hi list,

after fiddling with pkgsrc on IRIX (IRIX64 6.5.22) i finally gave up :(

here we go:

i) installed gcc 3.3 and cvs from freeware.sgi.com

ii) edited /etc/cshrc and /etc/profile to have the PATH for binaries 
installed within /usr/freeware/bin (among other paths)

iii) checked out pkgsrc

iv) bootstrapped pkgsrc

this took me a whole day, because although Developer Libs and Developer 
Foundation are installed i complained that my gcc cannot build 
executables... okay, finally solved this.

v) trying to build lang/gcc34 and set "USE_PKGSRC_GCC=yes" (never did 
that because it didn't build) i ran into several problems:

a) gpatch not found; patch is installed on the system, i grabbed the 
most recent from freeware.sgi.com and symlinked it to gpatch in 
/usr/pkg/bin (quick and dirty ;)

b) same applied to bzip and bzcat...

by default pkgsrc builds ABI=64 on my machine, but /devel/gmp does not 
want this: change to o32! although it is not possible to mix ABIs... so 
what now? furthermore, gmp is not available as binary from 
ftp.netbsd.org for IRIX.

i just wonder how to get pkgsrc run on IRIX -- as several people do as 
do mailing lists prove -- why is there no howto or guide out there if 
it's not running out of the box? or am i just blind...?

help very much appreciated because i really _like_ pkgsrc :)

thanks in advance & regards,

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