From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 26 7:35:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA1A37B5E8 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:35:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id QAA20987; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:35:11 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 20980; Fri May 26 16:34:57 2000 Message-ID: <392E8BEB.39C4916C@cequrux.com> Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:36:27 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sean O'Connell" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems compiling FreeBSD stable References: <392E33A1.E1241EB0@cequrux.com> <20000526092859.B8115@stat.Duke.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean O'Connell wrote: > > Graham- > > If you have good network connectivity, you might consider downloading > the floppies (or the OS parts of the distribution) for one of the more > recent -STABLE snapshots and install over what you have. > > Or if, you have another FreeBSD machine, do your buildworld on it > and do to make installworld over nfs (export /usr/obj and /usr/src > to the client). I also pre-build my kernels on the buildbox for all > of my install machines. Right now I'm trying to do a `make -i world' to get past the gcc problems. Once that completes, I'll try a `make world' and see if I get any further that way. I'm cautiously optimistic, to use that well-worn politician's phrase. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message