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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 00:37:11 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        "John A. Shue" <John.Shue@symmetron.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HELP: make aout-to-elf-build failed w/ sources from 05/13/99
Message-ID:  <19990517003711.A835@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <000e01be9fdf$a005f160$42baefce@mail.symmetron.com>; from John A. Shue on Sun, May 16, 1999 at 05:04:02PM -0400
References:  <000e01be9fdf$a005f160$42baefce@mail.symmetron.com>

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You're running a very old system.
Your kernel doesn't have all the required syscalls.
Upgrade to the 2.2.8-STABLE first, then upgrade to 3.2-STABLE.

On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 05:04:02PM -0400, John A. Shue wrote:
> I posted this to the STABLE mailing list and got no response.  Maybe I'll get a better
> response from the QUESTIONS mailing list.
> 
> --------------------------
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade a 2.1-STABLE machine to RELENG_3.
> 
> I cvsup'ed RELENG_3 on 5/13/99 from cvsup.freebsd.org.
> 
> I'm following instructions I found by searching the mail archives in combination w/ Nik
> Clayton's "Making the world your own" (which I've used many times in the past to track
> 2.1-STABLE and 2.2-STABLE).
> 
> The upgrade instructions say to do "make aout-to-elf-build" in /usr/src.
> 
> It immediately flashed the warning message:
> 
> "Makefile.upgrade", line 111: warning: Couldn't read shell's output
> 
> This doesn't seem to bother the make, because it continues to:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>  Upgrading the installed make
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Then it does:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>  Doing an aout buildworld to get an up-to-date set of tools
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Cleaning up the temporary aout build tree
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Then it dies during:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Making make
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> with the following error message:
> 
> main.o: Undefined symbol `_sysctlbyname' referenced from text segment
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.

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