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Date:      Thu, 09 Aug 2001 08:11:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Klaus Steden <klaus@compt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: problems upgrading 3.5-STABLE to 4.x
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010809081112.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20010808232726.P95706@cthulu.compt.com>

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On 09-Aug-01 Klaus Steden wrote:
> Help!
> 
> I'm not sure where to begin ... I've possibly mangled a few things in the
> meantime, but I'm having a devil of a time upgrading from 3.5-STABLE to 4.x
> 
> Currently, I've cvsup'd the most recent 4.2 source tree (I liked 4.2 that
> much, I guess).
> 
> If I cd into /usr/src, and try a 'make buildworld', I get this ...
> 
> -- cut --
> 
> c++ -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include/g++ -O -pipe
> -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include
> -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf/../../../contrib/gperf/lib
> -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf -c
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf/../../../contrib/gperf/src/new.cc
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf/../../../contrib/gperf/src/new.cc:80: warning:
> `catch', `throw', and `try' are all C++ reserved words
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf/../../../contrib/gperf/src/new.cc: In function
> `void operator delete(void *)':
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf/../../../contrib/gperf/src/new.cc:82: declaration
> of `operator delete(void *)' throws different exceptions...
> <internal>:82: ...from previous declaration here
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> 
> [you know the rest]
> 
> -- cut --
> 
> What am I doing wrong? More importantly ... what do I do to upgrade from
> 3.5-STABLE to 4.x? I'm following the instructions in /usr/src/UPGRADING but
> they don't account for these kinds of problems.

I also failed doing a source upgrade to 4 from 3.x. I resorted to the binary
upgrade, and then cvsup the lot and recompile world. It worked for me much
better/faster than my attempt s to do iti by source. Within each branch I have
never had much problems with the sourcees though.



> 
> Any assistance would be immensely appreciated.
> 
> thanks,,
> Klaus
> 
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