Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:19:38 -0600 From: Greg Nelsen <excalibr@avalon.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: F.Y.I. troubles with upgrading 4.1 to 4.2-stable Message-ID: <3A919B9C.6887A8D1@avalon.net>
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Pardon the upside down order of things below; I didn't know where to put this
stuff, so I sent it to questions... twice. Also, sorry I didn't script these
makes. (system is 300 MHz Pentium II ultra wide scsi on the board no other
frills... minimal-agp-video-card, cd, exobyte, fd, isa-nec2000 {ed0} )
Greg
> rather than shutdown my failed upgrade I tried to go to the GNU directory make
> clean make depend and rebuild (that failed on some ?blabla?77somthing lib (the
> 77 makes me think FORTRAN). I gave up on making in GNU and went to src made
> clean, buildworld and installworld and IT WORKS! something probably in
> -DNOFORTRAN (? -DNOGAMES???) biffed some (one) of these libs.
>
> Greg
>
> >
> > Last night I cvsuped the 4-stable tree and then followed the
> > instructions in src/UPGRADING
> > the cvsup went fine (i think) and building the world went fine (i
> > think). I say "I think" because these things take so long that I don't
> > watch them closely. Buildkernel went fine, and installkernel went fine
> > too. I dropped to single user... but the installworld command barfed an
> > error: It could not find GNU/?iforget?/libg2a or something like that
> > (I'm pretty sure of the lib and the g2a).
> >
> > I'm sort of a newbie with this, so is this system now too inconsistent
> > to run if it restarts, and is there any thing I can try? Yes I've got
> > backup and fixit disks --Oh, i used -DNOGAMES and -DNOFORTRAN too to
> > buildworld and installworld.
> >
> > Greg
> > excalibr@avalon.net
> >
>
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