On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, Stuart Shelton wrote: > > >See > >http://www.mail-archive.com/openpkg-users@openpkg.org/msg02352.html > > Okay, thanks - I'd missed this. > > >>* Is there currently any mechanism to give the bootstrap script an > >>alternative CC value? CC=cc in the environment doesn't seem to have any > >>effect. > > > >Try "sh openpkg...sh --help", there are --use_XXX= variables. > > Ah - I was trying to use the Release version, to which these options > hadn't yet been added.
I do it normally by setting the PATH accordingly so that the compiler is found. > >As far as i can see there are currently at lease 3 persons interested in > >this. Doug Summers, Doug Henry and me. I hoped that IRIX could be ready > >for the next release (BASE+CORE). When you are willing to help, this would > >be great. > > As I mentioned, I've been fixing bits of pkgsrc - but there don't seem to > be any IRIX-using maintainers, so getting patches accepted seems to be a > bit of an uphill struggle. Hopefully openpkg will be better all around ;) Well, you can join the foundation and become a developer yourself ;-) http://www.openpkg.net/ > I've got a 2x400MHz Octane2/V12 with 2Gb memory and the MIPSpro 7.4.3m > compiler suite, and I'm happy to help in getting IRIX to the stage where > it can be an officially supported platform. I also have access to an octane, but only with gcc. Don't know what other's have. The machine is no longer in heavy use, though ;) (mk) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prämotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
