From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 16 0:50: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ajax1.sovam.com (ajax1.sovam.com [194.67.1.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E595137B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 00:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avn@any.ru) Received: from ts9-a187.dial.sovam.com ([195.239.70.187]:1388 "EHLO srv2.any" ident: "TIMEDOUT" whoson: "-unregistered-" smtp-auth: TLS-CIPHER: "EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA keybits 192/192 version TLSv1/SSLv3" TLS-PEER: ) by ajax1.sovam.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:49:45 +0400 Received: from localhost (avn@localhost) by srv2.any (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4G7g0N52080; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:42:00 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from avn@any.ru) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:41:59 +0400 (MSD) From: "Alexey V. Neyman" X-X-Sender: To: Valentin Nechayev Cc: "Eugene M. Kim" , Subject: Re: Old compiler (3.3-stable -> 4->stable) In-Reply-To: <20010516004223.A800@iv.nn.kiev.ua> 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 hi, there! On Wed, 16 May 2001, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:41:55, ab (Eugene M. Kim) wrote about "Old compiler (3.3-stable -> 4->stable)": > >> I'm having some hard time getting a machine upgraded from 3.3-stable to >> 4-stable. > >It is better now to do binary upgrade from 3.x to 4.3, if your Internet >connection allows to download `bin' package (~50M). (But for mergemaster >you must untar or cvsup full sources.) Upgrade via `make world' will >fail in too many places, such as perl, gperf & groff, kernel... I found the following sequence to be rather fail-safe: 3.5.1-R -> 4.2-R -> 4.3-S, I tested it a few times and it have not failed me. # Alexey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message