Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:36:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Eswaran Srinivasan <eswar@idc.tandem.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building Free BSD source ... Message-ID: <19971027103641.62521@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <9710261206.AA24450@pelican.isd>; from Eswaran Srinivasan on Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 05:36:41PM %2B0530 References: <9710261206.AA24450@pelican.isd>
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On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 05:36:41PM +0530, Eswaran Srinivasan wrote: > Hi, > > I got a CD containing the 4.4 Free BSD Lite 2 source. I am trying > to build the source on i386 platform. It is giving lot of problems. > (around 50 problems so far). I am fixing one by one and proceeding > with the build. Most of the problems are "undefined symbols in text > or data segment". That's just the beginning. Estimate about 12 man-months before you can get the thing hobbling. About the only thing this CD-ROM is good for is reference. > Just curious to know if this is the normal case or there is a clean > code which I can just download and build without trouble ? Any suggestions, > which code I should pick up ? I mean Release 2.2.2 code, current code > etc. ? Get the FreeBSD-2.2.5 CD-ROM, which should be out in a week or so. Greg
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