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+$NetBSD: README.IRIX,v 1.1.1.1 2004/03/11 13:03:59 grant Exp $
+
+You will need a working C compiler, either gcc or SGI's MIPS and MIPSpro
+compiler (cc/c89).  Please set the CC environment variable according to your
+preference.  If you do not have a license for the MIPSpro compiler suite, you
+can download a gcc tardist file from http://freeware.sgi.com/.
+
+Please note that you will need Irix 6.5.17 or higher, as this is the earliest
+version of Irix providing support for if_indextoname(3), if_nametoindex(3),
+etc.
+
+At this point in time, pkgsrc only supports one ABI.  That is, you can not
+switch between the old 32-bit ABI, the new 32-bit ABI and the 64-bit ABI.  If
+you start out using "abi=n32", that's what all your packages will be built
+with.
+
+Therefore, please make sure that you have no conflicting CFLAGS in your
+environment or the /etc/mk.conf.  Particularly, make sure that you do
+not try to link n32 object files with lib64 or vice versa.  Check your
+/etc/compiler.defaults and $SGI_ABI!
+
+If you have the actual pkgsrc tree mounted via NFS from a different host,
+please make sure to set WRKOBJDIR to a local directory, as it appears that
+Irix linker occasionally runs into issues when trying to link over a network
+mounted filesystem.
+
+The bootstrapping process should set all the right options for programs
+such as imake(1), but you may want to set some options depending on your
+local setup.  Please see pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.defaults.mk and, of course,
+your compilers man pages for details.
+
+bootstrap-pkgsrc has been tested on Irix 6.5.18 on:
+	- an O2 with 1 195 MHZ IP32 Processor (R10000)