wow - building from source is much easier on netbsd than I expected!

:-)


On Aug 13 2004, George E Sollish wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>=20
> Do you have access to another NetBSD box on the local network?  Most
> hpcmips boxes are cramped to the point where setting up pkgsrc and
> compiling on the hpcmips box itself is a bother. What I do is set up
> pkgsrc (how is on netbsd.org) on one of my i386 boxes and mount_nfs that
> as /usr/pkgsrc on my hpcmips box.  Then make && make install, the heavy
> lifting all occuring on the i386.
>=20
> Good luck!
>=20
> George E Sollish=09Chief Engineer=09=09Auto Gear Equipment
> =09=09=09Project Manager=09=09The Payne Lake Project
>=20
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, S Dobson wrote:
>=20
> > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:43:09 +0100
> > From: S Dobson <sd20@york.ac.uk>
> > To: port-hpcmips@NetBSD.org
> > Subject: Pkg installation
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm currently installing a few packages via ftp however, what do you
> > have to do with the ones that don't have a precompiled binary?  For
> > example, I have chosen the hpcmips binary for abiword
> > (abiword-personal-1.0.2.tgz) but pkg_add doesn't work because a couple
> > of packages (such as png>=3D1.2.6rc1) are not present as pre-compiled. =
 I
> > have read the packages.txt file and presume that I have to use 'make'
> > and 'make install' but I am unsure what I need to download, the text
> > refers to getting the distfile but again I'm not 100% sure what the
> > distfile is?
> >
> > Any help?
> >
> > Many thanks
> > steve
> >
> >
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