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"Pangrazio, Robert Thomas (UMR-Student)" <rtp6xc@umr.edu> wrote:
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> 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.

Yes, pkgsrc under IRIX works reasonably well, but as you've noticed
there are some problems.  If you take a look at the results of the bulk
builds, you'll see what about 1800 packages build fine (ie about a
third), which ain't too bad but still leave plenty of room for
improvements.

> 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?

That is not a good idea.  As with NetBSD or Linux or any other operating
system, pkgsrc really needs to control all the third-party software.
Otherwise, it won't be able to determine and register dependencies
correctly.

As laborsome as it may be, the best approach is to determine why a
certain package doesn't build correctly and try to fix it.  If you have
patches, please post them here on this list.

Thanks, and good luck!

-Jan

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