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[     de.alt.folklore.computer                             ]
[     de.comp.os.unix.misc                                 ]
[     de.comp.os.unix.bsd                                  ]
[     comp.sys.sgi.apps                                    ]
[     comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc                            ]
[     comp.unix.programmer                                 ]
[     alt.folklore.computers                               ]

After a few days of hacking I finally got the netbsd package collection
compile from scratch on IRIX 5.3 - well, by no means completely yet - it
still fails at noumerous places, but IMHO it's good enough to be useful
for a start.
Since it still needs quite a lot of improvement I would very much
welcome any feedback from people who still run IRIX 5.3.
If you want to give it a try, instructions can be found at
http://geos.maxsyncron.com/netbsd-pkgsrc-on-irix5.3
Comments and corrections are appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Georg
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Georg Schwarz    http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
 geos@epost.de     +49 177 8811442