From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 13:30:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 505ED1104D for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:30:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990222213034.USAD682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:30:34 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: chemtechweb@psn.net Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:30:10 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: make buildworld for 3.1 fails Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, HERBELOT Thierry In-reply-to: <36D1AC1F.B8A19D9C@psn.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990222213034.USAD682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22 Feb 99, at 12:12, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > It's easier than that. Look in the stable archives for recent posts > about this. There's a tutorial to be followed, almost to the letter. > However, instead of doing the two-step make aout-to-elf-build and > make aout-to-elf-install as single user, it's better to drop right > away to single user and do a make upgrade. Did it from a 2.2.7 machine > and it worked like a charm (once I got all the source). OK. I've found the following references and it's now doing a "make aout- to-elf-build": http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=83251+88668+/usr/local/www/db/t ext/1999/freebsd-stable/19990131.freebsd-stable http://www.ucb.crimea.ua/~ru/FreeBSD/30upgrade.html > Keep in mind, this isn't recommended for a production machine. If this > machine is running as a server right now, it's recommended you use a > separate machine and install 3.1 there first, and port everything you > have on the first one to the second one to see how well it reacts. If only I had a second machine.... > That way you don't waste time trying to get the new system working. > This is because of the extent of the modifications (from aout to elf > binary format). Many things can get broken in the mean time, like > anything depending on aout libraries, may not find them all. Check the > archives for tales of woe. Good to hear (except that bit about "tales of woe"...). thanks -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message