From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 28 19:52:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.btinternet.com (carbon.btinternet.com [194.73.73.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDBB337C019 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:52:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.182.156] (helo=parish.my.domain) by ruthenium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12a3dB-0005tf-00; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:34:37 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01126; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:31:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:31:40 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Tobias Roth Cc: Pieter Westland , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Message-ID: <20000328223140.C234@parish> References: <20000328213052.B234@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:21:46PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: > > > > > This message appeared 166 times during ``make buildworld'': > > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.4" not found > > > > It also caused config(8) on the new kernel to fail, but > > > > ldconfig -R /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc > > > > cured that. > > > > It goes away once you've done ``make installworld'' libc.so.3 was in > > 3.x but 4.x uses libc.so.4 and while you're doing ``make buildworld'' > > and building a new kernel you've got a sort of hybrid system. I maybe > > wrong here, but ISTR recall that the new compiler (2.95) gets built > > with the old compiler and then immediately re-builds itself using > > itself :-/ > > So, does that mean I can skip the ldconfig, just do make buildworld and > make installworld as I always did and everything will work? > Or do I *HAVE* to to the ldconfig? > Well no, when you build the 4.x kernel for the first time (before installworld) it needs the ldconfig in order to find libc.so.4 or the config will fail. Having said that, ISTR that something is being changed to remove the need to run ldconfig. > thx, tobe > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Seminars, n.: From "semi" and "arse", hence, any half-assed discussion. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message