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authorjschauma <jschauma@pkgsrc.org>2005-04-10 22:21:54 +0000
committerjschauma <jschauma@pkgsrc.org>2005-04-10 22:21:54 +0000
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synch with last changes to bootstrap and READMEs
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diff --git a/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml b/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml
index d8bf1412ddc..912cb155aa6 100644
--- a/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/files/platforms.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $NetBSD: platforms.xml,v 1.5 2005/03/21 21:40:28 tv Exp $ -->
+<!-- $NetBSD: platforms.xml,v 1.6 2005/04/10 22:21:54 jschauma Exp $ -->
<chapter id="platforms">
<title>Using pkgsrc on systems other than &os;</title>
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
place the package database directory outside the
<emphasis>prefix</emphasis>. e.g.</para>
- <screen>&rprompt; <userinput>./bootstrap --pkgdbdir=/usr/pkg/pkgdb --pkgsrcdir=/Volumes/ufs/pkgsrc</userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&rprompt; <userinput>./bootstrap --pkgdbdir /usr/pkg/pkgdb --pkgsrcdir /Volumes/ufs/pkgsrc</userinput></screen>
<para>If you created your partitions at the time of installing Mac OS X
and formatted the target partition as UFS, it should automatically
@@ -328,6 +328,19 @@
as imake(1), but you may want to set some options depending on your local
setup. Please see <filename>pkgsrc/mk/defaults/mk.conf</filename> and, of
course, your compilers man pages for details.</para>
+
+ <para>If you are using SGI's MIPSPro compiler, please set
+ <programlisting>PKGSRC_COMPILER=mipspro</programlisting>
+ in <filename>/etc/mk.conf</filename> &emdash; otherwise, pkgsrc will assume you
+ are using gcc and may end up passing invalid flags to the compiler. Note that
+ bootstrap should create an appropriate <filename>mk.conf.example</filename> by
+ default.</para>
+
+ <para>If you have both the MIPSPro compiler chain installed as well as gcc,
+ but want to make sure that MIPRPro is used, please set your <varname>PATH</varname>
+ to <emphasis>not</emphasis> include the location of gcc (often
+ <filename>/usr/freeware/bin</filename>), and (important) pass the
+ '--preserve-path' flag.</para>
</sect2>
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