Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:49:39 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: "Gelsema, P \(Patrick\)" <gelsemap@superhero.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating from I386 architecture to AMD64 on -Current Message-ID: <46914DE3.1070901@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <3921.10.202.77.103.1183926641.squirrel@webmail.superhero.nl> References: <3921.10.202.77.103.1183926641.squirrel@webmail.superhero.nl>
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Gelsema, P (Patrick) wrote: > Hi lists, > > I had tp reinstall my AMD box and the only version available was the > -Current snapshot of April architecture I386. Wouldnt be a problem I > thought, just install I386 and rebuild world/kernel for AMD64. > > So I did the following for crossbuilds. > > #chflags -R noschg /usr/obj > #rm -rf /usr/obj > #cd /usr/src > #make cleandir > #make cleandir > #make TARGET=amd64 TARGET_ARCH=amd64 -j8 buildworld > #make TARGET=amd64 TARGET_ARCH=amd64 -j8 buildkernel > > Until that moment everything is looking great. When I try to install the > world/kernel however the 'problem' starts. > > hulk# make TARGET=amd64 TARGET_ARCH=amd64 -j8 installkernel > ERROR: Please set DESTDIR! > *** Error code 1 > 1 error > *** Error code 2 > 1 error > > Can someone point the obvious out for me, cause it seems that I am missing > something really simple... > > Thanks > > Patrick > This has been brought up a few times. It's by far much more difficult to do an in-place upgrade from i386 -> amd64, than it is to just install amd64 from scratch. Scrounge around the questions@ archives (in particular over the last week or so) for more discussion/details. -Garrett
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