Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 04:15:34 -0600 From: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> To: pprocacci@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 14.2-RELEASE buildworld failure Message-ID: <202501241015.50OAFYwj006780@sdf.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFbbPui28xKcx4y81XP13QDqRrCX8QLTHKWBpD50m8LmOkQp4g@mail.gmail.com> References: <202501240806.50O86h91025926@sdf.org> <CAAdA2WPPSQGcZ7EbDDeyw%2BYhjNsrnfs%2BAKFT4d=ZkZR4a1bMLw@mail.gmail.com> <CAFbbPui28xKcx4y81XP13QDqRrCX8QLTHKWBpD50m8LmOkQp4g@mail.gmail.com>
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Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for your comments.
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 3:50?AM Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 11:15?AM Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have been trying in vain to upgrade from
> >>
> >> FreeBSD hellas 12.4-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE-p2 #9 releng/12.4-n235816-149768b65d61: Sat Feb 18 00:13:00 CST 2023 bennett@hellas:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/hellas amd64
> >>
> >> to 14.2-RELEASE for some time now, but when I run "make buildworld" it fails
> >> during a linkedit step on complaints that it can't find a library that it wants.
> >> Here is an example of how it ends.
> >
> >
> > I didn't read the rest of your email after that last sentence above.
> > I could be wrong, but to upgrade a -RELEASE version, you don't need buildworld and such. You need freebsd-update.
> > And you need to upgrade from 12.4 -> 13.x -> 14.x stepwise.
> > So you can start with:
> > 1. https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/freebsd-13-released-how-to-update-upgrade-freebsd-12-to-13/, then proceed to
> > 2. https://www.debugpoint.com/upgrade-to-freebsd-14/
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> > Nairobi,KE
> > +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> > In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS.
> > "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ?\_(?)_/? :-)
> > [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
>
> He absolutely needs to buildworld because had you read the rest of his
> email (you said you didn't) you'd notice he has tunables which affect
> the build itself.
> Now with that said, I don't know what the error here is and can only
> suggest building with a fresh src.conf including only the things you
> absolutely need and trying that.
Yes, I did worry about that and tried it with nearly all of src.conf
commented out, even including
#WITHOUT_CLANG_BOOTSTRAP=yes
in spite of the extra time that requires, but I did leave
WITH_CCACHE_BUILD=yes
and, IIRC,
WITH_DEBUG_FILES=yes
. The result was basically the same, so now I've gone back to /etc/src.conf
the way I normally have it.
BTW, I note that it is great to see that in 14.2 the use of ccache(1)
actually does something useful again after several releases in which its
time-saving effect was almost entirely defeated by changes to the build system.
> Barring that, the baby step suggestion going from 12 -> 13 -> 14 as
> stated is certainly good advice.
In previous releases, I would have agreed, but in this case it strikes me
as far too risky. Also, over the years many people on this list and on -STABLE
have reported successful upgrades from source that skipped both minor and
major releases.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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