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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 ...
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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