Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 23:14:36 +0200 From: "Ulrich 'Q' Spoerlein" <q@uni.de> To: Gerhard Haering <haering_linux@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building -CURRENT with 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <s51mru8noob501nj3usv58janjrlth59s5@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <20021022022523.GA5953@gargamel.ghaering.test> References: <20021022022523.GA5953@gargamel.ghaering.test>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 04:25:23 +0200, you wrote: >Is it possible, or do I need to use a more recent installation to be able to >build -CURRENT? it was possible for me, but i had to go through a lot of hassles installing -CURRENT from within -STABLE. i used the DESTDIR-switch to install everything to /mnt/ (where my -current partition was mounted). but mergemaster failed due to a system call lacking (can't remember which one, i think it tried to start a programm in /mnt/bin which failed because it was linked against libc.so.5 i fixed that by linking libc.so.4 to libc.so.5 temporarily). the next pitfall is mergemaster NOT creating files/directories necessary, thus using it on a clean partition (only installworld'd and installkernel'd) will fail and you have to create some files/directories by hand. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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