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Date:      Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:05:42 GMT
From:      Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it>
To:        Scott Dexter <sdexter@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more compilation trouble
Message-ID:  <20000905.18054200@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10009051149560.25912-100000@louis.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10009051149560.25912-100000@louis.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>

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On 9/5/00, 5:02:34 PM, Scott Dexter <sdexter@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>=20
wrote regarding more compilation trouble:


> I'm trying to upgrade from 3.1 to 4.1 (using the CDS) and am having a
> rough time of it.  I've installed the entire src distriubtion from the=
=20
CD
> (including crypto and secure).  Per the instructions in=20
/usr/src/UPDATING,
> I'm now trying to make buildworld.  The /usr/obj tree gets setup fine,=
=20
but
> almost immediately in "stage 2: build tools" the process comes to a
> screeching halt with complaints of syntax errors after

> cd /usr/src/lib/libncurses; make build-tools

> I've tried to do this part of the build independently of make=20
buildworld
> and get similar results (slightly different errors).

> Are there other source files I need?  Are these somehow out of date?  =

Do I
> need to fiddle with make.conf?  Not sure how to get around this..

> Thanks
> Scott Dexter



Dear Scott Dexter,

I am not quite sure you can **still** perform such a transition in=20
**ONE** step.=20

AFAIR, at the end of May, Guido van Roj successfully updated one of=20
his machines from 3.1 to 4.0-STABLE, albeit that required appropriate=20
manual intervention -- ie compiling a number of things by hand.=20
Afterwards, if I remember rightly, the stable upgrade path (3-S to=20
4.S) was generally considered as working (and supported as such).

To be on the safe side, I would probably update in (at least) a couple o=
f=20
steps (e.g. 3.1 --> 3-S; 3-S --> 4-S). Unless one of those who have=20
actually spotted the gotchas posts a solution to this list :-)

Best of luck,
Salvo





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