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authorgdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org>2022-04-05 12:57:21 +0000
committergdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org>2022-04-05 12:57:21 +0000
commit31f4a34d4d841398e53bc9b0dff7e1b4132d5844 (patch)
tree988b18551b8caeba92522334b10303b42374b0c3 /bootstrap
parent7519b4a662c2eac1a42b6b15083373ebdb8ff243 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-31f4a34d4d841398e53bc9b0dff7e1b4132d5844.tar.gz
bootstrap: Document non-working status of AIX
Caution that the rest of the AIX README is from <= 2007.
Diffstat (limited to 'bootstrap')
-rw-r--r--bootstrap/README4
-rw-r--r--bootstrap/README.AIX15
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bootstrap/README b/bootstrap/README
index 20cf68c4ac9..e52cfd4f003 100644
--- a/bootstrap/README
+++ b/bootstrap/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: README,v 1.30 2022/04/03 13:10:18 gdt Exp $
+$NetBSD: README,v 1.31 2022/04/05 12:57:21 gdt Exp $
To try to get pkgsrc working on your system, please try the following
as root:
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Platforms with unknown status
Platforms believed to have no users
-----------------------------------
- AIX (no cwrappers)
+ * AIX (no cwrappers)
Bitrig
BSDOS (no README)
Haiku
diff --git a/bootstrap/README.AIX b/bootstrap/README.AIX
index 4ef5dc4472b..40878364c02 100644
--- a/bootstrap/README.AIX
+++ b/bootstrap/README.AIX
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
-$NetBSD: README.AIX,v 1.4 2007/10/02 18:29:55 heinz Exp $
+$NetBSD: README.AIX,v 1.5 2022/04/05 12:57:21 gdt Exp $
+
+In 2022-04, there was a report that pkgsrc-current fails to bootstrap
+on AIX 7.1 with gcc 8.3:
+ http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2022/04/04/msg035424.html
+
+Ancient Information
+===================
+
+All of the below is from 2007 or earlier.
+
+Status
+-----
pkgsrc has been tested on AIX 4.3 and 5.1. It will probably work on
newer releases also.
@@ -11,6 +23,7 @@ not have GNU ld(1) in your path.
If you are using gcc
--------------------
+
It makes life much simpler if you only use the same gcc consistently
for building all packages.