From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 0:52:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E1110FD8 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:52:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990223085312.MQDD3226200.mta2-rme@wocker>; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:53:12 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: chemtechweb@psn.net Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:51:59 +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 In-reply-to: <36D1E7AF.D94E295C@psn.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990223085312.MQDD3226200.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22 Feb 99, at 16:26, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > It's been recommended by Jordan to do a make upgrade in single user > mode compared to doing a make aout-to-elf-whatever, as explained by > the tutorial. This is if you're doing a build of 3.1 since the tut > was made for 3.0. It's very good and points to a few other important > pages (like upgrading /etc and /dev) so I'd recommend you either place > a link on your site, or ask the author if you can use it within your > site. Since I've used your site often for insight, and I'm sure many > others do, it would be beneficial to many :) Thanks for that. Very useful! I admit I've not been keeping up with the - stable list. I have already placed a link to the tutorial from my site. The article in question is a work in progress http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/upgrade31.htm?questions > Hope this is usefull! And hope your make aout-to-elf-build won't > break anything :) It most certainly was. And no, the make won't break anything. But the install might. ;) -- 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