From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 18 9:33:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F60D37B423 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15313; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8IGWow27887; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:32:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:32:49 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Warner Losh Cc: Joe Christy , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, joe@eshu.net Subject: Re: update 3.3 => 4.1 buildworld dies Message-ID: <20000918093249.B27739@tao.thought.org> References: <200009171606.e8HG6oE05354@whimper.dii.local> <200009181621.KAA31045@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200009181621.KAA31045@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:21:38AM -0600 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:21:38AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200009171606.e8HG6oE05354@whimper.dii.local> Joe Christy writes: > : Upgrading my i386 box from 3.3-RELEASE to 4.1-RELEASE, > : cvsup'ed last night, buildworld dies compiling the GNU binutils' > : objdump: > > You need to upgrade to at least 3.4 before making the jump to 4.1. > I wouldn't say ``need'' since I've managed to successfully upgrade from 3.2 to 4.X twice. But it was painful; I followed the UPDATING advice and experiences religiously... and still managed to yank fistfulls of hair from my head. 3.2 to 4.X is possible, but only if you persevere. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message