Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:48:32 -0700 From: Travis Cole <tcole@nihilist.org> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: patton@sysnet.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building world Message-ID: <19980708114832.B31417@nihilist.org> In-Reply-To: <199807081124.VAA23031@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:24:16PM %2B1000 References: <4648.899893623@time.cdrom.com> <199807081124.VAA23031@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:24:16PM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Yep. Transitioning all the way from 2.2.6 to 3.0 using just /usr/src > > is a fairly difficult proposition unless you're expert qualified with > > berkeley make and the FreeBSD source tree in general. > > Er, this is "mis-information" IMHO. > > > > > My recommendation, and the way I did this just a short time ago on > > another box as a sort of demo, is to extract the bindist from a > > 3.0-snap on top of your existing 2.2.x system and then make the world, > > a new kernel, reboot. Worked for me. > > This is not necessary. As I've said before: on a stock 2.2.6-RELEASE > installation with 3-0-CURRENT sources mounted as /usr/src, all you need > to do is: > > cd /usr/src > make -m /usr/src/share/mk world I am no expert at this (I have only been using FreeBSD for about 3 months) but I do know what works and the above does not. Just yesterday I cvsuped the 3.0-current source onto my 2.2.6-stable box. cd /usr/src make -m /usr/src/share/mk world (or buildworld) did *not* work. However cd /usr/src make -m buildworld MACHINE_ARCH="i386" BINFORMAT=aout *did* work and compiled the box I am sitting at right now. FreeBSD queequeg.dyn.ml.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Jul 7 > Obviously sending this information to this list _every_ time someone > compains about make world or buildworld not working on 2.2.6 doesn't > get the message across. I'm seriously considering getting a religion... Why doesn't some one add it to the FAQ or handbook? That was the first place I looked when *I* wanted to upgrade. Only after failing to find my answer there, did I start searching through the list archives -- --Travis tcole@nihilist.org -- http://nihilist.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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