Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:41:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading from 2.2.8 to 3.2-stable... Message-ID: <199907271841.LAA04083@realtime.exit.com>
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I sent this to -hackers, and got very little response. Warner Losh suggest I drop back to 3.1-RELEASE and retry the upgrade. I did, and got the same result. Has anyone succeeded at this, and, if so, how? > Well, I'm having problems upgrading a system from 2.2.8 to 3.2-stable. I > checked the archives, and apparently others have run into this one as well. > Unfortunately, I couldn't find a fix for it. > > The problem is when the upgrade procedure tries to build the elf version of > libmytinfo. It generates an executable, mkcaplist, which it uses to > generate the caplist.c file. This is an elf executable, which promptly > coredumps when the makefile tries to run it. > > Now, I _know_ this library has been around for a while, and others have > successfully done a "make upgrade." My question is: What the hell am I > doing wrong? > > I'm just doing a "make upgrade" on a clean /usr/obj. It crashes when it gets > to libmytinfo. That's it. > > Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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