Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:41:28 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail23@bzerk.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew.Li@alcatel.com.au Subject: Re: Getting from 5.1-RELEASE to RELENG_5_1 Message-ID: <20030821074128.GA51263@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030820213409.GE430@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> References: <20030820213409.GE430@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:34:09AM +1000, Peter Jeremy typed: > I am looking at moving various hosts from 4.x to 5.1 but have run into > a problem with my test machine. I've successfully installed > 5.1-RELEASE (from CD) but want to rebuild the system to customise it > to its environment. > > The machine in question does not have enough local disk space to hold > both /usr/src and /usr/obj. When I tried to NFS mount the space, the > 'make buildworld' would consistently wedge the machine in "stage 1: > bootstrap tools" building games/fortune/strfile. I tried using local > disk for /usr/obj and NFS mounting just /usr/src. This got somewhat > further but again wedged the machine. "Wedged" means no response via > network or local keyboard, needing reset to recover. > > Has anyone else seen NFS problems with 5.1-RELEASE? The client is a > P-133 with 96MB RAM. The server is a PIII running roughly 4.6. They > are both using 100baseTX full-duplex 802.1Q trunks to a common switch. > > My alternative (preferred) option is to do a build world/kernel on > another faster machine (the NFS server used above). This fails with > multiple definitions of _sigaction and _sigprocmask building > libpthread. Looking back thru the archives, I gather this has been > fixed in -CURRENT but it's not in RELENG_5_1 because it's not > security-related. > > Any suggestions for a way forward? I just successfully upgraded releng_4 -> releng_5_1 by using: make NOLIBPTHREAD=true buildworld ... make NOLIBPTHREAD=true installworld ... Maybe there should be a note about this in UPDATING ? Ruben > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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