On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:28:25PM +0200, Alexander Klein wrote:
> Is there any such thing like a 'standard' way to install software under BSD?

It won't get you gcc 2.95.3 (though there's a way to do that too,
see below), but go download pkgsrc.tar.gz off ftp.netbsd.org. The
typical place for this to live (after being untarred) is /usr/pkgsrc.
The short story is that these are Makefiles to download, compile,
and install many third party packages in a way that we know will
work on a NetBSD system. Read pkgsrc/README for more information.

(Incidentally, if you have cvs installed, which you may, as it seems
to be shipping as part of the standard installation in -current, so
maybe it's there in 1.5.1 too, you can just do "cd /usr ; CVS_RSH=`which
ssh` cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot checkout pkgsrc".)

If you want a newer gcc than we ship with, you'll need to attach
yourself to the development toolchain. This lives in
gnusrc/gnu/dist/toolchain, which similarly has localized
configuration and Makefiles to install all this software. But it's a
little less guaranteed to work right the first time.

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