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authorbsiegert <bsiegert@pkgsrc.org>2018-07-07 13:18:29 +0000
committerbsiegert <bsiegert@pkgsrc.org>2018-07-07 13:18:29 +0000
commit11defba4dcfe60b260bff01583ba2dbeddaae0d7 (patch)
tree09df170ecb50e1adc7e21f6f94fb025d162d1c35 /bootstrap
parent4e5be432233c2cfbd69b44a8cd79eac709048cf5 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-11defba4dcfe60b260bff01583ba2dbeddaae0d7.tar.gz
Document cleaning up with ./cleanup.
Requested in PR pkg/41803.
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diff --git a/bootstrap/README b/bootstrap/README
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--- a/bootstrap/README
+++ b/bootstrap/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: README,v 1.13 2016/11/15 11:19:09 jperkin Exp $
+$NetBSD: README,v 1.14 2018/07/07 13:18:29 bsiegert Exp $
To try to get pkgsrc working on your system, please try the following
as root:
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ The defaults for the arguments are as follows:
The working directory will be created if it doesn't exist and has to be
writable by the user executing ./bootstrap.
+The bootstrap script will exit if the bootstrap directory already exists,
+for example if you have run the script before. In this case, clean it up
+by running:
+
+# ./cleanup
+
Make sure that you have a working C compiler and make(1) binary in
your path. Please note that on some systems (IRIX and SunOS, for example),
the bootstrap script will look into a number of common directories for