Installing SDE-MIPS on NetBSD/i386

A note on installing the SDE-MIPS cross compiler environment from Algorithmics on NetBSD/i386 by installing the Linux version

1. Download the components of SDE-MIPS from Algorithmics. Find the free version - or the full version if you are so lucky to have access to it.
2. Install linux compatibility packages from package emulators/suse_base. I'm not sure if other of the SuSE packages needs to be installed. suse_compat may be. I have all these:

   suse_base-6.4       Linux compatibility package
   suse_libjpeg-6.4    Linux compatibility package for jpeg binary
   suse_libpng-6.4     Linux compatibility package for png library
   suse_x11-6.4        Linux compatibility package for X11 binaries
   suse_compat-6.4     Linux compatibility package with old shared libraries
   

3. Tweak the install script to recognise NetBSD as Linux. Change the case statement

   i?86:Linux:*:*)

   to

   i?86:Linux:*:* | i386:NetBSD:*:*)

   Also change the #! line to

   #!/emul/linux/bin/sh

   so that it's run with the Linux shell.
4. Run the install script sh as root:

   % chmod a+x install.sh
   % su
   # ./install.sh

   and answer all the questions.

That should do it! :-) Good luck!