Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:30:10 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: chemtechweb@psn.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> Subject: Re: make buildworld for 3.1 fails Message-ID: <19990222213034.USAD682101.mta1-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <36D1AC1F.B8A19D9C@psn.net>
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On 22 Feb 99, at 12:12, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > It's easier than that. Look in the stable archives for recent posts > about this. There's a tutorial to be followed, almost to the letter. > However, instead of doing the two-step make aout-to-elf-build and > make aout-to-elf-install as single user, it's better to drop right > away to single user and do a make upgrade. Did it from a 2.2.7 machine > and it worked like a charm (once I got all the source). OK. I've found the following references and it's now doing a "make aout- to-elf-build": http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=83251+88668+/usr/local/www/db/t ext/1999/freebsd-stable/19990131.freebsd-stable http://www.ucb.crimea.ua/~ru/FreeBSD/30upgrade.html > Keep in mind, this isn't recommended for a production machine. If this > machine is running as a server right now, it's recommended you use a > separate machine and install 3.1 there first, and port everything you > have on the first one to the second one to see how well it reacts. If only I had a second machine....<grin> > That way you don't waste time trying to get the new system working. > This is because of the extent of the modifications (from aout to elf > binary format). Many things can get broken in the mean time, like > anything depending on aout libraries, may not find them all. Check the > archives for tales of woe. Good to hear (except that bit about "tales of woe"...). thanks -- 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
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