Re: PKGSRC and IRIX

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Pangrazio, Robert Thomas (UMR-Student) wrote:

> I am trying to compile some packages, namely AbiWord, Firefox, and
> Thunderbird for my SGI Octane. It is running 6.5.22. I can get some
> packages but certain packages like glib2 fail. Has anyone had any
> success with pkgsrc on IRIX. I thought about maybe getting some of the
> libraries from freeware.sgi.com and perhaps also manually compiling the
> packages outside of pkgsrc. Has anyone had any experience mixing things
> like this?

You may want to try using the tech-pkg@ mailing list.

I read a lot about Irix work on that list.

You may want to read pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.IRIX also, but I don't know
if answers all the Irix-related pkgsrc frequently asked questions.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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