Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:11:59 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to reinstall gcc Message-ID: <F68C17AC-0569-45A8-A677-2B5A9CD53916@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <et5rc1$6cl$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <719F520B-B7F4-4A01-B294-534393953AED@goldmark.org> <et5rc1$6cl$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>
>> My question is without a functioning gcc, how do a install a
>> functioning
>> gcc?
>
> It seems to me that the easiest way would be to do a binary
> install/upgrade from the distribution CD. You might even get away with
> copying the relevant files (don't know which... probably binaries and
> libraries) from the live CD part.
Thanks for that.
For some reason (sorry I didn't record the error messages) I got into
some weird menu loop in sysinstall when I tried to upgrade. So in
the end, I just mounted the installation disk, found a directory
RELEASE-6.2/base
in which there was an install.sh that looked like it would do the
right thing. It did the right thing. The only problem was that I
forgot to restore my old /etc/passwd before rebooting. As a
consequence I couldn't ssh in, and so I had to lug an old monitor
across the room and clear desk space for it, so that I could log on
to the console.
Cheers,
-j
--
Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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