From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 27 13:41:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uncle.cult.cu (uncle.cult.cu [169.158.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F1C15012 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elie@uncle.cult.cu) Received: from localhost (1490 bytes) by uncle.cult.cu via sendmail with P:stdio/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:39:44 -0400 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #4 built 1998-Sep-15) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:39:44 -0400 (CDT) From: Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Some important environment variables. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG During my first (finally successfull) upgrade of my 2.2.6 system to 3.2 stable I encountered, due to my ignorance, problems arising from the lacking of the MACHINE_ARCH variable in my environment. I didn't know it should be set before firing make aout-to-elf-build, although I realize (of course) it should be set to i386 'cause I'm a PC user. But I wonder someone else could have the same problem on his/her fist upgrade, so I strongly beg and encourage all those worlderfull guy like Nick Clayton and An Douglas Barton to include this sort of thing in their respective upgrading tutorials, I mean, state the critical variables which have to be set previous to a make upgrade or the like. I must say the mergemaster script was (and will be) indeed very helpfull in this very stressing process of upgranding. Besides, I wonder if I could upgrade my production systems, currently running 2.2.5, mounting the build I've just made (and installed) via NFS. Comments will be very appreciated. ______________________________ Mr. Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez Net Manager & Sys Admin CEISIC. Ministry of Culture ______________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message