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Date:      Mon, 03 May 1999 10:50:44 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, eivind@FreeBSD.org (Eivind Eklund), obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf 
Message-ID:  <199905031650.KAA43727@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 May 1999 07:58:56 %2B0200." <199905030558.HAA04246@greenpeace.grondar.za> 
References:  <199905030558.HAA04246@greenpeace.grondar.za>  <199905022128.HAA13985@cimlogic.com.au> 

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In message <199905030558.HAA04246@greenpeace.grondar.za> Mark Murray writes:
: John Birrell wrote:
: > For 4.x-current, I don't think we should support source upgrades from
: > old aout releases. There are too many combinations to test and I doubt
: > that anyone has enough hardware and enough spare time to repeatedly
: > work on this stuff.
: 
: Is that an official core-type decision? I can happily live with it.

There is also a simple, but time consuming, workaround:  You can
upgrade to 3.1-elf from older a.out releases, then do a make world
with that system to get a 4.x current system.

Warner


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