From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 20 13:26:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B50C37BE0D for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@pc0640.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <115224>; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 06:25:23 +1000 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:54:29 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Is x-compiling 2.2 on a 3.x system supported? In-reply-to: <200006070352.NAA21347@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:52:58PM +1000 To: Gregory Bond Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Jun21.062523est.115224@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <200006070352.NAA21347@lightning.itga.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 13:52:58 +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > Is building 2.2.x world on 3.x supported? I'd be very surprised if it was. The 2.2 build process mostly assumes that it is running on 2.2. My attempts to build 2.2.x on 4.x also died inside rtld. The problems were a mixture of the changes to symbol mapping (the '_' prepended to symbols in a.out but not ELF) and having the rtld work during the build process - when it has to work with the 4.x kernel. When I asked a similar question, Cy Schubert suggested running buildworld inside a chroot'd 2.2 environment - and that worked on a 4.x system (but I haven't gotten around to the installworld part). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message