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Date:      Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:38:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Norbert Irmer <norbert.irmer@heim9.tu-clausthal.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: buildworld failure
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007222137440.2299-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007230413260.908-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:

> > Do I have to do something special before I can do a 'make buildworld', or
> > is ~current currently broken ?
> 
> Bootstrapping from 4.0 and previous versions to 4.1 and -current is broken,
> because mtree depends on new library features but must be built before the
> new libraries.  You have to somehow bootstrap the new libraries.  Maybe
> copy them from a current snapshot.

Incidentally, whoever broke this should be shot and strung -- I thought
that upgrading from the latest -STABLE to -CURRENT was a supported
operation?

Copying files from snapshots to bootstrap yourself is just plain
unacceptable.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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