Helpful Irix Commands

Useful Irix commands and info

Bootstrapping pkgsrc

Explaination of how to bootstrap pkgsrc

http://netbsd.binarycompass.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/platforms.html

Binary bootstrap kit for all supported systems (minus gcc)

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html

WORKING (important) binary distribution of GCC

http://people.redhat.com/rsandifo/

Summary

This assumes that you use tcsh because it is what I use. Substitute appropriate commands for other shells.

1. download [this]
2. untar it, and cd to pkgsrc/bootstrap
3. run bmake
4. edit /etc/mk.conf
   1. I like to add ABI=64
5. download [this] and [this]
6. untar them into $DIRECTORY
   1. $DIRECTORY can be anything. I like /usr/people/YOUR_USER_NAME/bin
7. setenv PATH $DIRECTORY:$PATH
8. add CC="gcc" to /etc/mk.conf
9. cd to pkgsrc/lang/gcc
10. run bmake install
11. add USE_PKGSRC_GCC=yes to /etc/mk.conf
12. install lots of stuff from pkgsrc

DHCP

SGI's DHCP client, proclaim, is insufficently documented. To set the hostname sent to the DHCP server to purple (for example), add the line:

hostname: purple

to the file: /etc/config/proclaim.options

Document last modified Tue, 07 Dec 2004 02:00:01