From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 28 22:22:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E62F37B598 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:21:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id JAA26342; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:20:11 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:20:11 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Mark Ovens Cc: Tobias Roth , Pieter Westland , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Message-ID: <20000329092011.B24680@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Ovens , Tobias Roth , Pieter Westland , stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000328213052.B234@parish> <20000328223140.C234@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <20000328223140.C234@parish>; from Mark Ovens on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:31:40PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:31:40PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > 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. > This is not the case when you build the kernel with buildkernel target. -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message