From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 14:32:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB98E37BEEF for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.171]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:36:14 -0700 Message-ID: <39060EB7.C36253@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:31:35 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pat Barron Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.2.6 to 4.0-RELEASE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pat Barron wrote: > > So, I have this machine that I have 2.2.6 on, which I want to upgrade to > 4.0. I've blown away the 2.2.6 source tree, and put a fresh 4.0-RELEASE > source tree in its place; various comments in the Makefile suggest that I > should be able to build a 4.0 world on 2.2 or higher, but when I try to > do "make -DWANT_AOUT world", it bombs in various places. Does anyone have > a good set of incantations for building 4.0 from a 2.2.6 base? I looked > for the "Upgrading FreeBSD from source" tutorial mentioned in the readme > file, but it doesn't seem to exist. For starters, they don't even recommend going straight to 3.4 in one step and I think that would be true even more in going to 4.0. I would probably try 2.2.8 > 3.2 > ? >4.0. The question is whether you can bypass 3.4 or not. The stretch from a.out to elf is the jump at 3.2. Kent > > --Pat. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message