From e5fcb880ceffc63e1b9e7b0f25c8ba0f37ac262b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jschauma Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:03:35 +0000 Subject: Update README's for last change in bootsrap. --- bootstrap/README | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'bootstrap/README') diff --git a/bootstrap/README b/bootstrap/README index 9ba360e596b..dba34da44b9 100644 --- a/bootstrap/README +++ b/bootstrap/README @@ -1,11 +1,17 @@ -$NetBSD: README,v 1.4 2004/06/23 19:06:40 wiz Exp $ +$NetBSD: README,v 1.5 2005/04/10 22:03:35 jschauma Exp $ To try to get pkgsrc working on your system, please try the following as root: -# ./bootstrap [ --prefix=${PREFIX} ] [ --pkgdbdir=${PKG_DBDIR} ] \ - [ --sysconfdir=${PKG_SYSCONFBASE} ] [ --workdir=working directory] \ - [ --ignore-case-check ] [ --ignore-user-check ] [ --help ] +# ./bootstrap + [ --workdir ] + [ --prefix ] + [ --pkgdbdir ] + [ --sysconfdir ] + [ --ignore-case-check ] + [ --ignore-user-check ] + [ --preserve-path ] + [ --help ] The defaults for the arguments are as follows: @@ -14,13 +20,17 @@ The defaults for the arguments are as follows: --sysconfdir /usr/pkg/etc --workdir work -It is perfectly acceptable to place ${PKG_DBDIR} under ${PREFIX}. +It is perfectly acceptable to place 'pkgdbdir' under 'prefix'. The working directory will be created if it doesn't exist and has to be writable by the user executing ./bootstrap. Make sure that you have a working C compiler and make(1) binary in -your path. +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 +alternative implementations of some tools. If they are found, these +directories will be prepended to the PATH variable, unless the +'--preserve-path' flag is given. See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html for more information about bootstrapping and using pkgsrc. -- cgit v1.2.3