The following reply was made to PR pkg/35289; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Fanch <fanch@kekpar.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/35289: Build of graphics/xpm fails on Irix with MIPSPro
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:49:52 +0100

 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  >  To me, it doesn't seem using this proper version.
 >  
 >  IIRC bootstrap is supposed to create a mk.conf pointing to ${PREFIX} for
 >  known unsupported tools. Does that happen for you? If not, please
 >  provide the uname so that we can add it to the OS list :-)
 >   
 Oops, sorry, my fault.
 I've done a mix of a recent NetBSD and old Irix (2 years old)
 mk.conf, with only a quick glimpse at the generated mk.conf.example
 
 >  >  The second line is not the right thing to do, but if TOOLS_PLATFORM.grep
 >  
 >  mk.conf is to provide that. 
 >   
 Humm, having "USE_TOOLS+= grep:pkgsrc" (with OPSYS conditionnal)
 in the package Makefile could be a good solution (build dependency).
 But I don't understand why it doesn't work; I must miss
 something, one more time :-)
 
 
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