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Subject: Re: Fw: Building world after cvsup
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In-Reply-To: <199610152107.RAA28111@mh004.infi.net> from "Steve Sims" at Oct 15, 96 05:06:26 pm
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Steve Sims stands accused of saying:
> 
> I started with an empty /usr/src.  I tweaked the CVSUP files to pull 
> -stable into my tree.   Hours later (14.4 - ugh) I had a spanking new source
> tree under /usr.  Plenty of disk to spare (~700Mb).
> 
> As root, (cd /usr/src ; make world).  Poom!  No success.  Didn't know how to
> make cleandir.  OK, 'make -DNOCLEANDIR world`.  It doesn't like a *lot* of
> things in ctype.h.
> 
> I could fiddle for days, but I'll cut to the chase;  What are the steps
> necessary to build a -stable release after cvsup'ing the appropriate bits?
> 
> (I started with the 960501 SNAP, for what that's worth.)

Downgrading from 2.2 to 2.1 is not supported in any fasion.  If you want
-stable, start from 2.1.5.

> ....sjs...

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