The following reply was made to PR pkg/30234; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
To: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, pkg-manager@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/30234: IRIX: PKGSRC_COMPILER=gcc uses mk/wrapper/gcc.mk,  
 butcalls/usr/bin/cc (which is MIPSpro)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 15:21:46 -0400

 Georg Schwarz wrote:
 
 > Now what you could do is trying to make use of the new tools framework by
 > having it create a symlink called cc in the .tools/bin directory pointing
 > to your gcc compiler. This should take priority over your system cc.
 > I am not sure however whether the later wrapper stage will already recognize
 > this when it searches for a usable cc. As a workaround you could also
 > manually create a respective symlink in your ${LOCALBASE}/bin directory
 > (which, unfortunately I should say for other reasons, the cc wrapper
 > does detect and prefer).
 
 Actually, this didn't work either. It ended up trying to pull in lang/gcc, which
 tried to pull in pkgtools/pkg_install-info, which then tried to pull in lang/gcc
 again...
 
 The "workaround" which seems to be working thus far is:
 
   PKGSRC_COMPILER=gcc
   _CC=/usr/freeware/bin/gcc
 
 Of course, now it's still calling 'CC' instead of 'g++' for a C++ compiler (which
 again is MIPSpro here). Time to sort that one out next.
 
 Cheers,
 Jared