From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 8 11:50:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10960 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.methow.com (qmailr@ns.methow.com [206.107.156.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10942 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:50:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tcole@ns.methow.com) Received: (qmail 31482 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jul 1998 18:48:33 -0000 Message-ID: <19980708114832.B31417@nihilist.org> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:48:32 -0700 From: Travis Cole To: John Birrell , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: patton@sysnet.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building world References: <4648.899893623@time.cdrom.com> <199807081124.VAA23031@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <199807081124.VAA23031@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:24:16PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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